Peer Recovery Specialist Certification |
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Person centered, non-judge mental, & empowering language - ✔✔My experiences, what's
happened to me, people I work with, I'm here to learn with you, risking new thinking and
behavior, and change patterns.
Effective listening - ✔✔Focus attention on speaker, avoid distractions, sit appropriately close
to speaker, acknowledge emotional state, set aside prejudices & opinions, be other directed &
focus on person communicating, following understand speaker as if I was in their shoes, be
aware, listen with my ears but also with my eyes and other senses, don't interrupt, be involved
and engaged.
Barriers to effective listening - ✔✔Assuming unknown know what the other person is
thinking, listening selectively, jumping to conclusions, letting my mind wander, working on a
response or solution while peer is still talking, changing the subject before the peer is done, &
automatically agreeing before understanding completely.
motivational interviewing - ✔✔Gives a framework for having conversations to bring out a
persons own internal motivation and thoughts about changing hey specific health behavior.
motivational interviewing - ✔✔To guide the person to recognizing & solving their own
challenges with changing a behavior.
Principals of motivational interviewing - ✔✔Changes up to the person, express empathy and
acceptance, hope the person recognize discrepancies between goals and current behavior,
avoid confrontation, support peers believe in their abilities to succeed in accomplishing a task
and encourage optimism.
motivational interviewing - ✔✔Non-judgmental process designed to help build the peers self
efficacy. It involves working with the peer to develop a step by step change plan.
, Peer recovery specialists recovery story - ✔✔My recovery story not my illness story. Shows I
have been there, promotes empathy, focuses on Strank's and overcoming barriers, shares what
works, focuses on wellness, full of hope, and is a transformative narrative. It's living proof that
people do get well. It builds a bond & creates and atmosphere of mutuality & trust.
self-efficacy - ✔✔a peers confidence that they can solve problems and make changes
successfully on their own. Based on the belief that they themselves are in control.
Culture - ✔✔A system of shared values, traditions, norms, customs, art, history, folklore, and
institutions of a group of people. It's shaped how people see the world and structure their
community and family life.
Cultural identity - ✔✔Groups a peer feels like they belong to. It may be defined by ethnic
racial gender or sexual orientation identity groups, kinship networks, geographic regions,
religious affiliations, jobs and professions, physical ability or disability,, life experiences and
social & economical classes.
Connection between culture & recovery - ✔✔Different ideas of what constitutes illness or
impairment, health, traditions of healing, Different ways of seeking am receiving help, different
visions of a good life, and different spiritual traditions.
Important factors that vary among cultures - ✔✔Verbal and nonverbal communication
styles, personal space in touch, family roles and relationships, attitudes toward smoking drug
and alcohol use, attitudes toward mental illness, religious or spiritual practices, and pathways
to recovery.
Organizational cultural competence - ✔✔A set of congruent behaviors attitudes and policies
that come together in a system agency or among professionals that enables effective work in
cross cultural situations.