A person who has an addiction and/or mental illness diagnosis and works as a provider of behavioral health services.
What is a Peer Support Specialist?
Is the process of gaining control over one's life and the direction one wants that life to go.
What is Recovery?
Gives you the skills needed to share your mental illness experiences with others in ways that will assist them.
Why Certification is important?
A recovery tool to be used to educate and inspire peers and non-peer staff.
What is a Recovery Story?
The training that you have completed in order to become certified.
What is Peer Support Specialist Training?
Not considered a foundation of well-being
-Spirituality
-Teamwork
-Recovery
-Healthy Relationships
What is Teamwork
A requirement to become a Certified Peer Specialist
What is....
-Taking the 40 hour Course
or
-Passing the Exam
The biggest barrier belief to a person in recovery
What is the belief that you cannot recover?
How are Short term and long-term goals related to recovery
what is something a CPS will work to develop with a patient
Which of these is inappropriate self-care for a Certified Peer Specialist
-Seeing your psychiatrist or therapist
-Attending a support group
-Speaking with your supervisor about your concerns
-Discussing it with a peer you are working with and asking for feedback
What is Discussing it with a peer you are working with and asking for feedback
The experience of being deeply discredited due to one’s disability
What is Marginalization
A way for a Certified Peer Specialist to show empathy
What is working to understand another feelings
When a patient arrives high to your appaoimtnet
What is
-Do NOT continue
and
-Remind patient of agency rules