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Peers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The individuals we serve
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Peer Support Specialist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A person who has a mental illness
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diagnosis and works as a provider of mental health services. He or she has been trained
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and has the ability to use his recovery experience to help his peers recover.
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Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a process of change through which individuals
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How do you help a peer achieve wellness? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The CPSS must
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first understand their own identity, values, experiences, goals and dreams
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Values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The things that you believe are important to the way
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you live and work
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what are values intended for? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔To help you lay a solid
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foundation for permanent change
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What is the most important aspect of peer support work? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔Making sure you are taking care of yourself
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What alone can be a motivator to change? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The act of self-
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monitoring
Disadvantages of self monitoring - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Discouraging to keep vv vv vv vv vv vv vv vv
reporting or acknowledging failures
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Mindful Recovery Model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔one of the many self-help approaches
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that cultivates the practice of mindfulness and accepting our emotions
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Personal Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A balance of your physical, emotional,
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social, academic, environmental and spiritual lives
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Peers - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The individuals we serve
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Peer Support Specialist - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A person who has a mental illness
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diagnosis and works as a provider of mental health services. He or she has been trained
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and has the ability to use his recovery experience to help his peers recover.
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Recovery - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔a process of change through which individuals
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improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full
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potential
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How do you help a peer achieve wellness? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The CPSS must
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first understand their own identity, values, experiences, goals and dreams
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Values - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The things that you believe are important to the way
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you live and work
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what are values intended for? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔To help you lay a solid
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foundation for permanent change
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What is the most important aspect of peer support work? - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔Making sure you are taking care of yourself
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What alone can be a motivator to change? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔The act of self-
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monitoring
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behaviors
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Mindful Recovery Model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔one of the many self-help approaches
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that cultivates the practice of mindfulness and accepting our emotions
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Personal Wellness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A balance of your physical, emotional,
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social, academic, environmental and spiritual lives
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