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Peer Recovery Coach Training Certification Exam Questions and Answers
Peer Recovery Coach Training Certification Exam Questions and Answers
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Peer Recovery Coach TrainingCertification Exam Questions and
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Addiction to Substances - -Compulsive physiological need for and use of a
habit-forming substance (such as marijuana, nicotine, or alcohol)
characterized by tolerance and by well-defined physiological symptoms upon
withdrawl.
-Advocacy - -A process of helping someone to have their views, opinions,
questions, and concerns heard by others, including service providers,
program administrators, and policy-makers. These individuals help
individuals to protect their rights and to be freed from stigma.
-Behavioral Health - -A state of mental/emotional well-being, and/or choices
and actions that affect wellness. This term can also be used to describe the
service systems surrounding the promotion of mental health, the prevention
and treatment of mental and substance use disorders, and recovery support.
-Compassion Fatigue - -People who continually offer support and
compassion to others can be left feeling depleted of energy and optimism.
They then find it hard to continue to offer empathy and support.
-Confidentiality - -This principle requires that information shared by the
peer with the Peer Recovery Specialist is not shared with others. This
principle promotes an atmosphere of safety and trust. However if you think a
person is in danger of harming himself or others, you are obligated to speak
up, even though this means breaking this principle.
-Co-occurring Disorder - -People that have one or more mental illnesses
AND one or more substance use disorders at the same time.
-Cultural Competence - -This principle, at the individual, organizational, and
systems levels, involves being respectful and responsive to the health
beliefs, practices, and cultural and linguistic needs of diverse people and
groups. On the person-to-person level, this principle refers to the ability to
interact effectively with people of different cultures and socio-economic
backgrounds.
-Cultural Diversity - -Differences in race, ethnicity, language, nationality,
religion or affiliation among various groups within a community. A
community is said to be exhibiting this principle if its residents include
members of different groups.
, -Culture - -A system of shared values, traditions, norms, customs, arts,
history, folklore, and institutions of a group of people. This principle shapes
how people see the world and structure their community and family life.
-Empathy - -The ability to understand and share the feelings of another
-Mental Health Disorder - -These disorders/diagnoses involve changes in
thinking, mood, and/or behavior. These disorders can affect how a person
relates to others and makes choices.
-Mental Health - -A state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or
her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work
productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his
community (WHO Definition)
-Mental Illness - -A medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking,
feeling, mood, ability to relate to others and daily functioning.
-Peer Recovery Specialist - -An individual who has lived experience with
mental illness and/or addition to alcohol and other drugs, and has also
completed formal training, who provides one-one strengths-based support to
peers in recovery.
-Peer Support Group - -A group of people who meet regularly to share
experiences associate with a particular condition or personal circumstance
they have in common, and to encourage and support each other in helping
themselves.
-Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - -An anxiety disorder that some people
develop after living through or seeing a traumatic event, such as war,
physical or sexual abuse, a serious accident or a natural disaster. Anyone at
any age can get this disorder after experiencing a traumatic event.
Symptoms may develop right away or years later.
-Recovery - -A process of change through which individuals improve their
health and wellness, live a self-directed life and strive to reach their full
potential. (SAMHSA 2012).
-Self-Advocacy - -People practice this by speaking up for themselves to
express their own needs and represent their own interests.
-Stigma - -Negative attitudes or beliefs about people with substance use
disorders or mental illness. Negative attitudes may create prejudice which
leads to negative actions and discrimination.
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