Peer Support
To support others using shared lived experience.
What is the main role of a peer support worker?
A situation where confidentiality must be broken.
What is Risk of harm to self or others, Child abuse, or elder abuse?
A limit that protects both the peer and the participant.
What is a boundary?
True or False: Peers should give advice based on personal experience.
Answer: False – peers share experience, not advice.
Sign that a peer might need more self-care?
What is feeling exhausted, irritable, overwhelmed, or emotionally drained.
Why is confidentiality especially important in peer support?
It builds trust and safety.
Your peer is going through a difficult time in their life. You support them by listening whenever they need to vent, but you start to feel very depressed and isolated.
What is compassion fatigue?
When a peer has more than one role with a participant.
What is a dual relationship?
Helps maintain ethics, boundaries, and self-care.
What is supervision?
Simple self-care practice a peer could use during the workday.
What is taking breaks, deep breathing, hydration, stepping outside, grounding.
You are supporting a peer who is in a wheelchair. How would you refer to this person in their first language?
What is a person utilizing a wheelchair, simply a person.
Approaching an upset person with a calm tone and relaxed demeanor is an example of....
What is De-escalation?
True or False
All relationships need to have boundaries.
What is True?
While it may be uncomfortable to set out boundaries, every relationship can benefit from establishing them. This includes intimate relationships, friendships, peers, coworkers, familial relationships, etc.
A peer knows a participant from the community. What should they do?
Disclose to supervisor and follow agency guidance.
Because taking care of yourself helps prevent burnout, protects boundaries, and ensures you can show up safely and effectively for others.
Why is self-care considered an ethical responsibility in peer support work?
Value of peer support that emphasizes respect for each person’s choices.
What is self-determination?
A peer you are supporting confides in you that they have returned to use, and if they get caught, they will be kicked out of their sober living. What is your ethical responsibility in this situation?
What is continue to support the peer.
Think about setting boundaries with the peer that you aren't comfortable keeping secrets.
Your friend has been going through a difficult time lately. You've been doing your best to support them, including saying yes to things you normally wouldn't do, and things you don't want to do. What is this an example of?
What is failure to maintain boundaries?
What should a peer do if their personal values conflict with a participant’s choices?
Set aside personal values and continue to support without judgment.
Talk to your supervisor!
You feel emotionally drained and over-involved with a participant. What should you do?
Seek supervision and reassess boundaries.
Peer value where the peer’s role is to walk with someone, not to "do" for them.
What is empowerment?
The peer support you are providing support to is an abusive relationship. You find yourself becoming frustrated and having difficulty keeping your options to yourself. What action can you take to better support your peer?
What is talk to your supervisor!
What is the zone of support that is a balance of involvement and healthy boundaries?
What is the zone of helpfulness?
What ethical principle involves being honest and transparent about your role?
Integrity / Fidelity.
Is it appropriate for a peer to share their personal phone number?
Only if allowed by agency policy.