Peer Recovery Specialist Certification
Exam/73 Q’s and A’s (Recovery coaching)
SAMHSA specifies 4 major dimensions that support a life in recovery. - -
Health, home, purpose, & community
-Health - -Managing ones disease(s) as well as living as well as living in a
physically & emotionally healthy way.
-Home - -A stable & safe place to live.
-Community - -Relationships & social networks that provide support,
friendship, love , and hope.
-Purpose - -Meaningful daily activities, such as job school volunteerism,
family care-taking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income
and resources that participate in society.
-Guiding principles of recovery - -RECOVERY EMERGES FROM HOPE. The
belief that recovery is possible provides the essential and motivating
message of a better future. That people can and do overcome the internal
and external challenges, barriers, and obstacles that confront them.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS PERSON DRIVEN. Recovery
is self determined & self directed, with individuals defining their own life
goals and designing their own unique path to recovery.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY OCCURS VIA MANY PATHWAYS.
Individuals are unique with distinct needs, strengths, preferences, goals,
culture, and backgrounds that affect and determine their individual pathways
to recovery.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS HOLISTIC. recovery
encompasses an individuals whole life, including mind, body, spirit and
community.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED MY PEERS AMD
ALLIES. Mutual support and mutual aid groups, including he sharing of
experiential knowledge and skills, plan an invaluable role in recovery.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED THROUGH
RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL NETWORKS. An important factor in the recovery
process is the presence and involvement of people who: believe in a persons
, ability to recover, offer hope support and encouragement. Suggest strategies
and resources for change. Role model positive behaviors and attitudes.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS CULTURALLY BASED AND
INFLUENCED. Culture and cultural background in all of its diverse
representations- including values, traditions and beliefs-are keys in
determining a persons journey and unique pathway to recovery.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS BASED ON RESPECT.
Community, systems, societal acceptance and appreciation for people
affected by mental health and substance abuse disorders-including
protecting their rights and eliminating discrimination- are crucial in achieving
recovery.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED BY ADDRESSING
TRAUMA. Services and supports should be trauma-informed to foster safety
(physical & emotional) and trust, as well as promote choice, empowerment
and collaboration.
-Guiding Principles of recovery - -RECOVERY INVOLVES INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY,
AND COMMUNITY STRENGTHS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. These have strengths
and resources that serve as a foundation for recovery.
-4 types of support offered by peer recovery specialists - -Emotional,
informational, instrumental (tangible), & affiliation (support in building
relationships)
-Goals of peer recovery support - -Instill hope, reduce stigma, be a role
model of strength, survival & growth, decrease isolation by promoting
connection, support person centered, & engage in mutual learning as equals.
-Stigma - -The experience of being deeply Discredited due to one's
perceived in undesired different nurse. It was a cluster of negative attitudes
or believes he'll buy the general public about people with substance use
disorders or mental illness.
-10 principals of recovery - -Recovery emerges from Hope, is person driven,
has many pathways, is holistic, is supported by peers and allies, supported
through relationships and social networks, is culturally based and influenced,
is based on respect, is supported by addressing trauma, involves individual
family and community strengths and responsibilities.
-Peer recovery support - -Recovery support is the process of giving and
receiving non-clinical assistance to help aid the the process of recovery and
is provided by individuals with lived experience & also has completed formal