Peer Support Specialist Quiz 1 || 100% Verified Answers.
Peers correct answers The individuals we serve
Peer Support Specialist correct answers 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 answers 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 answers The CPSS must first understand their
own identity, values, experiences, goals and dreams
Values correct answers The things that you believe are important to the way you live and work
what are values intended for? correct answers To help you lay a solid foundation for permanent
change
What is the most important aspect of peer support work? correct answers Making sure you are
taking care of yourself
What alone can be a motivator to change? correct answers The act of self-monitoring
Disadvantages of self monitoring correct answers Discouraging to keep reporting or
acknowledging failures
self-monitoring correct answers Tracking your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors
Mindful Recovery Model correct answers one of the many self-help approaches that cultivates
the practice of mindfulness and accepting our emotions
Personal Wellness correct answers A balance of your physical, emotional, social, academic,
environmental and spiritual lives
Countertransference and transference correct answers These triggers can lead to a decline in
service delivery and contribute to poor performance and relapse
What happens when personal wellness is ignored? correct answers The CPSS suffers, the peer
suffers, the agency that the CPSS represents suffers
How to maintain personal wellness correct answers Be sure to create a clear, trusting relationship
with the supervisors of your agency to ensure you secure an outlet for discussing feelings of
being overwhelmed, stressed or burned out
Good communication correct answers the key to being successful in peer support work
Peers correct answers The individuals we serve
Peer Support Specialist correct answers 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 answers 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 answers The CPSS must first understand their
own identity, values, experiences, goals and dreams
Values correct answers The things that you believe are important to the way you live and work
what are values intended for? correct answers To help you lay a solid foundation for permanent
change
What is the most important aspect of peer support work? correct answers Making sure you are
taking care of yourself
What alone can be a motivator to change? correct answers The act of self-monitoring
Disadvantages of self monitoring correct answers Discouraging to keep reporting or
acknowledging failures
self-monitoring correct answers Tracking your feelings, thoughts, and behaviors
Mindful Recovery Model correct answers one of the many self-help approaches that cultivates
the practice of mindfulness and accepting our emotions
Personal Wellness correct answers A balance of your physical, emotional, social, academic,
environmental and spiritual lives
Countertransference and transference correct answers These triggers can lead to a decline in
service delivery and contribute to poor performance and relapse
What happens when personal wellness is ignored? correct answers The CPSS suffers, the peer
suffers, the agency that the CPSS represents suffers
How to maintain personal wellness correct answers Be sure to create a clear, trusting relationship
with the supervisors of your agency to ensure you secure an outlet for discussing feelings of
being overwhelmed, stressed or burned out
Good communication correct answers the key to being successful in peer support work
