Session 1
Focus of this training
What is Mental Health Recovery ONLY
Peer Support Specialist also have a gift in using their lived experiences to
What is Affirm experiences with “mental illness” recovery when working with peers.
Define: HOPE
What is: The believe that one has the ability and the opportunity to engage in the recovery process.
Diagnosis Fact#3
What is: Whatever people focus on they give power to. Help your shift your focus to wellness is soon as possible.
Comfort Contract #2
What is: No side conversations.
The greatest impact of the onset of mental illness
What is dealing with the sense of loss and disconnection
The difference in focusing on the symptoms and disruptive behavior as opposed to the sense of loss and disconnection for mental health.
What is focus is in the mental health recovery.
This training program is based on five fundamental beliefs about the way life is.
What is:
1.) People think their way through life.
2.) Everyone has the ability to learn and grow.
3.) Peoples believes determine their behavior.
4.) Whatever people focus, on they give power to.
5.) life’s experiences are the best teacher.
Diagnosis Fact #4
What is: Recovery experience is a golden nugget. A gift.
Comfort Contract #5
What is: Be considerate of other people’s feelings use oops and ouch if you want to acknowledge that you were offended or bothered.
Three (3) things lost as a result of mental illness
what is:
1.) Interest in life
2.) Confidence in myself
3.) Hope
Role of Peer Support Specialist
What is used lived experiences to promote and support recovery.
Debilitating Diagnosis
What is: Just because you get a diagnosis doesn’t mean you lose the ability to think strategically and creatively. I am able in prefer to do this on my own.
Regarding Trauma: instead of asking “What‘s wrong”
What is: what do you need.
Comfort Contract #6
What is: Do not overuse perfume or after shave because other people may be sensitive to those smells.
The major function in the role of a peer support specialist
What is helping people overcome the fee of loss and the sense of being disconnected.
Define RECOVERY
What is The belief that one has the ability and the opportunity to engage in the recovery process.
Diagnosis fact
What is: Being diagnosed doesn’t take away your ability to learn and grow. Learning and growing can still happen.
Comfort Contract
What is: Respect Confidentiality
Comfort Contract #7
What is: Mistakes are OK
The best gift you can give another peer in need of he
What is “Your lived experiences”
Explain the Definition of Recovery
What is the process of gaining control over one’s life - And the direction one wants that life to go - On the other side of a psychiatric diagnosis and all of the losses usually associated with that diagnosis.
Diagnosis Fact#2
What is: what a person believes about themselves will determine their success in creating the life they want.
Comfort Contract #2
What is: no speaking over another person.
Comfort Contract #8
What is: Speak even if your voice shakes.