MEDI-CALPEER SUPPORT SPECIALIST FINAL
EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔What is helpful at the Action stage? - ✔✔Help them carry out their plan, provide
praise and reinforcement, and continue to be a source of moral support.
✔✔What is recovery, according to the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA)? - ✔✔A process of change through which individuals improve
their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
✔✔What are the four dimensions that support recovery, according to SAMHSA? -
✔✔Health, home, purpose, and community
✔✔What are some guiding principles of recovery as defined by SAMHSA? -
✔✔Recovery emerges from hope, is person-driven, and occurs via many pathways
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a core value of peer support services? - ✔✔Disorder-
focused
✔✔A consumer is frustrated because several different service providers are not
communicating well when it comes to their care. How can the Peer Support Specialist
, support this consumer? - ✔✔Encourage the consumer to request a team meeting so all
staff can connect.
✔✔A Peer Support Specialist is working with a consumer with severe mental health
issues who has been in inpatient treatment for several months. Prior to a treatment
team meeting, the consumer says to the Peer Support Specialist, "I don't know why I'm
even going. They are just going to keep me here anyway." Which action would the Peer
Support Specialist take to encourage self-advocacy? - ✔✔Model an effective action by
sharing a time when the Peer Support Specialist assertively communicated their own
needs and desires.
✔✔A Peer Support Specialist is meeting with a consumer's care team to discuss the
consumer's failure to follow-through on their treatment goals. What action would the
Peer Support Specialist take to support the consumer? - ✔✔Provide the care team with
an update on what steps the consumer has taken since the last team meeting.
✔✔A consumer expressed feeling overwhelmed with the requirements of their probation
officer and service providers. How can a Peer Support Specialist assist the consumer
with navigating the expectations? - ✔✔Help the consumer arrange a meeting with both
parties to discuss their viewpoint.
✔✔A consumer wants to use their experience with managing their mental illness to help
others. How can the Peer Support Specialist help the consumer to accomplish this
goal? - ✔✔Assist the consumer by providing encouragement, direction, and support of
their advocacy desires.
✔✔What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? - ✔✔A civil rights law prohibiting
discrimination against people with disabilities.
✔✔The Olmstead decision stated that people with disabilities... - ✔✔Have a right to
receive state-funded supports in the community, rather than in facilities.
✔✔Aimed at safeguarding the civil rights of one of society's most vulnerable
populations, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) provided...
a. - ✔✔an end to the inappropriate and often indefinite institutionalization of people with
mental illnesses and developmental disabilities
✔✔Many peer interventions, such as the 12-step group Alcoholics Anonymous... -
✔✔Were founded in a time of intense stigma towards people with mental health and/or
alcohol issues
✔✔A person receiving support tells a Peer Support Specialist they are feeling
discouraged due to a recent relapse. The Peer Support Specialist can inspire hope by...
- ✔✔Disclosing their own experience with setbacks in their recovery
EXAM UPDATED QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
SURE A+
✔✔What is helpful at the Action stage? - ✔✔Help them carry out their plan, provide
praise and reinforcement, and continue to be a source of moral support.
✔✔What is recovery, according to the Substance Abuse Mental Health Services
Administration (SAMHSA)? - ✔✔A process of change through which individuals improve
their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
✔✔What are the four dimensions that support recovery, according to SAMHSA? -
✔✔Health, home, purpose, and community
✔✔What are some guiding principles of recovery as defined by SAMHSA? -
✔✔Recovery emerges from hope, is person-driven, and occurs via many pathways
✔✔Which of the following is NOT a core value of peer support services? - ✔✔Disorder-
focused
✔✔A consumer is frustrated because several different service providers are not
communicating well when it comes to their care. How can the Peer Support Specialist
, support this consumer? - ✔✔Encourage the consumer to request a team meeting so all
staff can connect.
✔✔A Peer Support Specialist is working with a consumer with severe mental health
issues who has been in inpatient treatment for several months. Prior to a treatment
team meeting, the consumer says to the Peer Support Specialist, "I don't know why I'm
even going. They are just going to keep me here anyway." Which action would the Peer
Support Specialist take to encourage self-advocacy? - ✔✔Model an effective action by
sharing a time when the Peer Support Specialist assertively communicated their own
needs and desires.
✔✔A Peer Support Specialist is meeting with a consumer's care team to discuss the
consumer's failure to follow-through on their treatment goals. What action would the
Peer Support Specialist take to support the consumer? - ✔✔Provide the care team with
an update on what steps the consumer has taken since the last team meeting.
✔✔A consumer expressed feeling overwhelmed with the requirements of their probation
officer and service providers. How can a Peer Support Specialist assist the consumer
with navigating the expectations? - ✔✔Help the consumer arrange a meeting with both
parties to discuss their viewpoint.
✔✔A consumer wants to use their experience with managing their mental illness to help
others. How can the Peer Support Specialist help the consumer to accomplish this
goal? - ✔✔Assist the consumer by providing encouragement, direction, and support of
their advocacy desires.
✔✔What is the Americans with Disabilities Act? - ✔✔A civil rights law prohibiting
discrimination against people with disabilities.
✔✔The Olmstead decision stated that people with disabilities... - ✔✔Have a right to
receive state-funded supports in the community, rather than in facilities.
✔✔Aimed at safeguarding the civil rights of one of society's most vulnerable
populations, the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) provided...
a. - ✔✔an end to the inappropriate and often indefinite institutionalization of people with
mental illnesses and developmental disabilities
✔✔Many peer interventions, such as the 12-step group Alcoholics Anonymous... -
✔✔Were founded in a time of intense stigma towards people with mental health and/or
alcohol issues
✔✔A person receiving support tells a Peer Support Specialist they are feeling
discouraged due to a recent relapse. The Peer Support Specialist can inspire hope by...
- ✔✔Disclosing their own experience with setbacks in their recovery
