Mentor Responsibilities
The shelf in the mentor office with the corresponding day & shift.
What is Where Q-15s go at the end of the night?
T/F: Students are allowed in each others' rooms with student permission?
False: Students are allowed in rooms with MENTOR permission
What is Discovery Level?
Explain Employee/Student Ratio
1:4
Mentors may utilize other staff, supervisors, or residential leadership team members to obtain assistance with problem-solving.
What is TIPP and what is the goal?
Temperature, Intense Exercise, Paced Breathing, Progressive Muscle Relaxation.
The goal is to help calm down when you're at your emotional breaking point.
What is a strategy used to bring about change in a student's thoughts, behaviors, and actions?
What is an intervention?
What items are students allowed to share with each other?
Nothing. Once you share something it is no longer yours.
At what level are Home Visits permitted?
What is Integrity (Level 3)?
What sort of items are kept in "File"?
Mirrors, glass containers with makeup, electric razors, tweezers, scissors, cameras, and occasionally contraband items used for art or sewing supplies.
Experiencing the Emotion, Being Mindful of Body Sensations, Notice Urges, Don't Judge.
What is Riding the Wave?
Providing detailed documentation about the students assigned to each mentor regarding behaviors pertinent to their treatment and progress
What is charting?
Describe Meal Plan Boundaries (Level, Approval, Budget, etc).
Students may apply for a meal plan on Interdependence with the treatment team. Students submit meal plans to medical by 9 am on Wednesdays for review. They receive a $65 budget per week and must shop on the approved menu only. NO FOOD IS TO BE SHARED EVER.
No longer in LOS but checks in every 15 minutes, overnight privileges with family, taking responsibility for themselves and their treatment while challenging core beliefs, 30-minute social calls.
What is Belonging Level?
A student reports that they want to kill themself. What do you do?
Be curious about the ideations. Ask about intent & plan. Report immediately to a supervisor who will determine whether primary therapist & residential manager/on call therapist (after 5pm) are notified. Mentor communicates a specific threat, level of urge, what proceeded the event, level of intent, and what supports they have attempted to use/what they are asking for. The student stays within arms reach until a direction is given by the therapist or supervising staff.
Used to effectively ask for what you want.
What is DEARMAN: Describe, Express, Assert, Reinforce, Be Mindful, Appear Confident, Negotiate.
What are the 3 ways to "take initiative" as a Mentor?
Describe.
1: Nonverbal Cues
2: Detailed Communication
3: Pull Your Own Weight
Describe "Lifestyle" boundaries.
No gang signs, clothing that draws undue attention to the student, drug/gang/violence-related clothing, or music/entertainment that does not align with Sunrise values is not permitted (Mentor discretion).
Not a level but rather a phase.
DAILY DOUBLE: What are the guidelines associated with this phase?
What is Safety Status?
Name all Suicide Watch Protocols
Notify on-call therapist immediately. SW lasts a minimum of 24 hours.
Assigned to most seasoned mentor. No one else on that Q-15. Sleep directly next to NW staff (w/light). Students shower in bathing suits. A search of the bathroom before & after using, along with pocket checks. Therapist determines any additional interventions.
What is THINK and what is the goal?
Think, Have Empathy, Interpretations, Notice, Kindness.
Used to reduce negative emotions towards others.
Being physically WHERE the clients are and DOING what the clients are doing is critical for what situation at Sunrise RTC?
DAILY DOUBLE: What is not appropriate to share in these situations?
What is Group Therapy?
A student reports you are starving them because they are told they cannot make whatever they want for snack/dinner. How do you navigate this boundary?
TBD.
May have their own meal plan, drop-off privileges, may maintain a part-time job, focus on transition plans, relapse prevention, and cope-ahead plans, and checks in with Mentors every 60 minutes
What is the Interdependence Level?
Name ALL Runaway Policies/Protocols
Bonus: T/F It is okay for all mentors on shift to search for a runaway student.
Conduct 15-minute checks. Notify the Supervisor who has the team will the house. The Supervisor notifies on-call. Mentors should do their best to communicate the direction of travel and clothing description of the student. Use a Sunrise vehicle to retrieve the student. HIPPA goes out the window during a search.
False: A house should not be left without a mentor. The remaining students should be gathered in the communal area to ensure safety.
What is ABC PLEASE & goal?
Accumulate Positives, Build Mastery, Cope Ahead, (treat) Physical Illness, (balance) Eating, Avoid Mood-Altering Drugs, (balance) Sleep, (get) Exercise.
Means doing what can be done for you own body's health even when you don't feel well or negative emotions are stronger.