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