Peer Support Specialists CPS 2025/2026
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What is a Peer Support Specialist? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔CPS provides peer
support to people receiving services to Mental Health and/or Substance
Abuse.
Where do Peer work? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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.
What is the roll of CPS? (2 of2) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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, while operating under a
clearly defined role and collaborate in a complementary fashion as part of
an agency's team support structure.
Domain1: (Values) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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.
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, 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.
1.1:
Believes that recovery is an individual journey with many paths and is
possible for all:
*CPS understands & recognizes that recovery is attainable by anyone and
that each person's recovery is unique to themselves. Additionally, CPS
values the diverse array of recovery pathways available and validates each
person's chosen path. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔IE.
Exam Questions and Verified Answers |
Already Graded A+
What is a Peer Support Specialist? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔CPS provides peer
support to people receiving services to Mental Health and/or Substance
Abuse.
Where do Peer work? - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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.
What is the roll of CPS? (2 of2) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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 - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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, while operating under a
clearly defined role and collaborate in a complementary fashion as part of
an agency's team support structure.
Domain1: (Values) - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔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.
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, 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.
1.1:
Believes that recovery is an individual journey with many paths and is
possible for all:
*CPS understands & recognizes that recovery is attainable by anyone and
that each person's recovery is unique to themselves. Additionally, CPS
values the diverse array of recovery pathways available and validates each
person's chosen path. - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔IE.
