Washington state Certified Peer Counselor
Exam Study Guide questions with answers
SAMHSA definition of recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Recovery
is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and
wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.
SAMHSA's elements of recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Hope,
person-driven, many pathways, holistic, peer support, relational, culture,
addresses trauma, strengths/responsibility, respect
Resiliency - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the ability to adapt effectively
and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis
Differing ideas about recovery in substance use disorders - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔abstinence vs. harm reduction
Families are integral to recovery for children - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔true, support system, advocates, environmental change
medical model vs. recovery model of care - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔medical: languages are overly clinical, disempowering, do not promote
hope. Recovery: language and practices that are person centered and promote
hope and other recovery concepts
, Person First Language - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Placing the
individual ahead of the challenge. Power with. Model this. Strengths based. No
jargon.
Two ways peer supporters support recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Inspire hope and possibility. Support peers to get in touch with their own
inner wisdom. Working with, not giving to, not doing for. Not sage on the stage
but guide on the side. share your own story of hope and overcoming
challenges, support choice and empowerment, encourage opportunities for
additional support
hope is essential for recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the turning
point when we start to have the smallest belief that our lives can improve. The
belief that a positive outcome or better situation lies ahead.
Peer partner skills - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔listen actively, support
engagement, ask recovery supported questions. SOLER, seat towards peer,
open posture, lean toward peer, eye contact, relax
Listen to meaning, feeling, values - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔quietly
without judgement, lean in with curiosity, check your bias and your story, pay
attention to feeling and nonverbal cues
Demonstrating understanding - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔paraphrasing, reflecting feeling, responding to meaning
Orienting - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔what's going to happen, why
(what's in it for peer, why do it), how the process happens
Exam Study Guide questions with answers
SAMHSA definition of recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Recovery
is a process of change through which individuals improve their health and
wellness, live self-directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.
SAMHSA's elements of recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Hope,
person-driven, many pathways, holistic, peer support, relational, culture,
addresses trauma, strengths/responsibility, respect
Resiliency - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the ability to adapt effectively
and recover from disappointment, difficulty, or crisis
Differing ideas about recovery in substance use disorders - ....🔰VERIFIED
ANSWERS.... ✔✔abstinence vs. harm reduction
Families are integral to recovery for children - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔true, support system, advocates, environmental change
medical model vs. recovery model of care - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔medical: languages are overly clinical, disempowering, do not promote
hope. Recovery: language and practices that are person centered and promote
hope and other recovery concepts
, Person First Language - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔Placing the
individual ahead of the challenge. Power with. Model this. Strengths based. No
jargon.
Two ways peer supporters support recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔Inspire hope and possibility. Support peers to get in touch with their own
inner wisdom. Working with, not giving to, not doing for. Not sage on the stage
but guide on the side. share your own story of hope and overcoming
challenges, support choice and empowerment, encourage opportunities for
additional support
hope is essential for recovery - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔the turning
point when we start to have the smallest belief that our lives can improve. The
belief that a positive outcome or better situation lies ahead.
Peer partner skills - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔listen actively, support
engagement, ask recovery supported questions. SOLER, seat towards peer,
open posture, lean toward peer, eye contact, relax
Listen to meaning, feeling, values - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔quietly
without judgement, lean in with curiosity, check your bias and your story, pay
attention to feeling and nonverbal cues
Demonstrating understanding - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS....
✔✔paraphrasing, reflecting feeling, responding to meaning
Orienting - ....🔰VERIFIED ANSWERS.... ✔✔what's going to happen, why
(what's in it for peer, why do it), how the process happens
