PEER RECOVERY PRACTICE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADE +
1. When you are developing a recovery/wellness plan you should include: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B:
Recovery and/or wellness plans help those receiving services to plan for immediate needs, anticipate
triggers and identify supporters. With the help of peers they can identify both short and long term goals
to support their recovery.
2. Advocacy is intended to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D: One major role of a peer who provides recovery
support is to advocate for the peer, protect the peer's rights and reduce the impact of stigma on the
peer's recovery process.
3. What are SAMHSA's four major dimensions of recovery? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C: SAMHSA has
outlined four major dimensions that support a life in recovery.
Health, Home, Purpose, Community.
4. Stigma can be clearly defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A: The Center for Disease Control describes
stigma as a cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivate the general public to fear, reject,
avoid, and discriminate against people with mental illness and other behavioral health differences.
Stigma can lead to social exclusion or discrimination, and can discredit a person due to differences which
may result in unequal access to resources including educational opportunities, employment, a
supportive community, and access to quality health care.
5. You would be committing a boundary violation if you: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C: Some key ethical
boundaries of a Peer Recovery Specialist include not exchanging money or gifts or services, not dating or
socializing with peers, and not sharing personal contact information.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADE +
1. When you are developing a recovery/wellness plan you should include: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔B:
Recovery and/or wellness plans help those receiving services to plan for immediate needs, anticipate
triggers and identify supporters. With the help of peers they can identify both short and long term goals
to support their recovery.
2. Advocacy is intended to: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔D: One major role of a peer who provides recovery
support is to advocate for the peer, protect the peer's rights and reduce the impact of stigma on the
peer's recovery process.
3. What are SAMHSA's four major dimensions of recovery? - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C: SAMHSA has
outlined four major dimensions that support a life in recovery.
Health, Home, Purpose, Community.
4. Stigma can be clearly defined as: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔A: The Center for Disease Control describes
stigma as a cluster of negative attitudes and beliefs that motivate the general public to fear, reject,
avoid, and discriminate against people with mental illness and other behavioral health differences.
Stigma can lead to social exclusion or discrimination, and can discredit a person due to differences which
may result in unequal access to resources including educational opportunities, employment, a
supportive community, and access to quality health care.
5. You would be committing a boundary violation if you: - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔C: Some key ethical
boundaries of a Peer Recovery Specialist include not exchanging money or gifts or services, not dating or
socializing with peers, and not sharing personal contact information.
