Peer Support
Specialists CPS Exam
, Peer Support Specialists CPS Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is a Peer Support Specialist? - ✔✔CPS provides peer support to people
receiving services to Mental Health and/or Substance Abuse.
Where do Peer work? - ✔✔Often a peer run organization on a team entirely
composed of other Peer Support Professionals or part of a recovery team with
other clinicians and service providers.
What is the roll of CPS? (1of 2) - ✔✔1.Cultivate empowering & supportive
relationships.
2.use of self-disclosure about lived experience.
3.Provide information about community & recovery-oriented resources upon
request.
4. Assist in supporting their peer, even in a crisis.
5. value self-determination as a guiding ethical principle.
6. Facilitate person-centered goal setting.
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,What is the roll of CPS? (2 of2) - ✔✔7. Communicate effectively with peers, and
other team members, and clinicians.
8.Create an environment of respect for their peers, and those with lived
experience.
9.Seek to under the roles of culture, community, and identity play in their peers'
lives.
10. Practice Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) within the peer relationship and
workplace.
11. Affect positive change in systems.
12. Inspire Hope for Recovery and Wellness.
Wisconsin's " working" Difinition of CPS - ✔✔A Certified Peer Specialist is a
person who has their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance
use challenges and has completed formal training and certification in the peer
specialist model of mental health and substance use oriented peer support.
They use their unique set of lived experiences and recovery in combination with
comprehensive skills-training, including continuing education, to support people
living with mental health and/or substance use challenges. Certified Peer
Specialists actively center peer support and associated principles in their work,
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, while operating under a clearly defined role and collaborate in a
complementary fashion as part of an agency's team support structure.
Domain1: (Values) - ✔✔Domain 1: Values
1.1 Believes that recovery is an individual journey with many paths and is
possible for all.
1.2 Believes in and respects people's rights to make informed decisions about
their lives.
1.3 Believes that personal growth and change are possible.
1.4 Believes in the importance of empathy and listening to others.
1.5 Believes in and respects all forms of diversity.
1.6 Believes in the importance of self-awareness and self-care.
1.7 Believes in lifelong learning and personal development.
1.8 Believes that recovery is a foundation of well-being.
1.9 Believes that recovery is a process.
1.10 Believes in the healing power of healthy relationships.
1.11 Believes and understands there are a range of views regarding mental
health and substance use disorders and their treatment, services, supports, and
recovery.
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Specialists CPS Exam
, Peer Support Specialists CPS Exam
Questions and Answers 100% Pass
What is a Peer Support Specialist? - ✔✔CPS provides peer support to people
receiving services to Mental Health and/or Substance Abuse.
Where do Peer work? - ✔✔Often a peer run organization on a team entirely
composed of other Peer Support Professionals or part of a recovery team with
other clinicians and service providers.
What is the roll of CPS? (1of 2) - ✔✔1.Cultivate empowering & supportive
relationships.
2.use of self-disclosure about lived experience.
3.Provide information about community & recovery-oriented resources upon
request.
4. Assist in supporting their peer, even in a crisis.
5. value self-determination as a guiding ethical principle.
6. Facilitate person-centered goal setting.
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,What is the roll of CPS? (2 of2) - ✔✔7. Communicate effectively with peers, and
other team members, and clinicians.
8.Create an environment of respect for their peers, and those with lived
experience.
9.Seek to under the roles of culture, community, and identity play in their peers'
lives.
10. Practice Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) within the peer relationship and
workplace.
11. Affect positive change in systems.
12. Inspire Hope for Recovery and Wellness.
Wisconsin's " working" Difinition of CPS - ✔✔A Certified Peer Specialist is a
person who has their own lived experience of mental health and/or substance
use challenges and has completed formal training and certification in the peer
specialist model of mental health and substance use oriented peer support.
They use their unique set of lived experiences and recovery in combination with
comprehensive skills-training, including continuing education, to support people
living with mental health and/or substance use challenges. Certified Peer
Specialists actively center peer support and associated principles in their work,
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, while operating under a clearly defined role and collaborate in a
complementary fashion as part of an agency's team support structure.
Domain1: (Values) - ✔✔Domain 1: Values
1.1 Believes that recovery is an individual journey with many paths and is
possible for all.
1.2 Believes in and respects people's rights to make informed decisions about
their lives.
1.3 Believes that personal growth and change are possible.
1.4 Believes in the importance of empathy and listening to others.
1.5 Believes in and respects all forms of diversity.
1.6 Believes in the importance of self-awareness and self-care.
1.7 Believes in lifelong learning and personal development.
1.8 Believes that recovery is a foundation of well-being.
1.9 Believes that recovery is a process.
1.10 Believes in the healing power of healthy relationships.
1.11 Believes and understands there are a range of views regarding mental
health and substance use disorders and their treatment, services, supports, and
recovery.
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