Recall
What is Wellness Recovery Action Plan?
What is a core requirement for a Peer Support Specialist to maintain their certification in California?
What is completing a specific number of Continuing Education (CE) hours?
A Peer Support Specialist (PSS) has been working with a peer for six months. The peer offers the PSS a $50 gift card to a local restaurant as a thank-you. According to professional boundary guidelines, what is the best response?
What is politely decline the gift and explaining that professional ethics prevent you from accepting personal gifts?
What is NOOOOOOO! Don't do it?
There are three types of location options for taking the PSS Certification Exam.
What is no, just two?
The goal of "Self-Advocacy" is for the peer to:
What is effectively communicate their own needs, rights, and choices?
When a PSS helps a peer identify their "Strengths," they are looking for...
What are internal resources, skills, and positive traits the peer can use to recover?
A PSS can help reduce "Social Stigma" by:
It could be useful to pay attention to any cognitive distortions as I engage in my study process and even during the exam itself.
What is - yes, definitely could be helpful?
If I do not pass the exam on the first try...
What is...I can try again up to three more times in 12 months, if I pay the fee.
Which is a right protected under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
A. The right to never be fired from a job.
B. The right to "reasonable accommodations" in the workplace.
C. The right to free housing in any city.
D. The right to use any medication without a prescription.
A PSS is helping a consumer with navigating resources. The PSS should focus on...
A. The resources the PSS likes the most.
B. The resources that the peer identifies as being most important to their goals.
C. The resources that are the closest to the clinic.
D. The resources that the peer's doctor recommended.
In your work as a PSS today, you are thinking about sharing your lived experience. The primary goal should be to
A. Make the session more interesting by telling stories.
B. Seek support from the peer for the PSS's own past traumas.
C. Instill hope and demonstrate that recovery is possible.
D. Prove that the PSS is 'more recovered' than the peer.
For my study strategy, once I leave class today I am never looking at the study materials again!
What is...That would be a huge mistake?
A PSS is documenting a session where a peer was yelling in the hallway of the clinic when asked to attend group. Which is the MOST objective way to record this in the Medi-Cal notes?
A. "The peer was hostile and uncooperative today."
B. "The peer became angry when we discussed housing."
C. "The peer raised their voice and stated, 'I am not doing this today.'"
D. "The peer was having a bad day and was very loud."
You discover a peer you are working with is actually a distant cousin. What is your first step?
A. Keep it a secret to avoid being reassigned.
B. Disclose the relationship to your supervisor immediately.
C. Tell the peer you can no longer work with them.