1. What is the primary difference between a peer support worker and other
mental health professionals?
• Answer: Peer support workers draw primarily from their lived experience
of mental health challenges and recovery rather than from clinical
training.
2. Which of the following best describes the recovery model in mental
health?
• Answer: A person-centered approach that emphasizes hope, personal
responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support while focusing on a
person's ability to live a fulfilling life despite mental health challenges.
3. What does the term "mutual support" refer to in peer support work?
• Answer: The reciprocal process where individuals with similar
experiences provide emotional and practical support to each other,
fostering healing and growth for both parties.
4. Which core value emphasizes the importance of peer support workers
allowing individuals to make their own choices about their recovery
journey?
• Answer: Self-determination.
5. What is meant by the term "strengths-based approach" in peer support?
• Answer: An approach that focuses on identifying and building upon an
individual's existing strengths, abilities, and resources rather than
concentrating on deficits or problems.
6. Which of the following is NOT typically a role of a peer mental health
worker?
, • Answer: Diagnosing mental health conditions or prescribing medication.
7. What does "trauma-informed care" mean in the context of peer
support?
• Answer: An approach that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma,
understands potential paths for recovery, recognizes signs and symptoms
of trauma, and responds by integrating knowledge about trauma into
policies, procedures, and practices while actively avoiding re-
traumatization.
8. Which of the following best describes the concept of "person-first
language"?
• Answer: Language that puts the person before the diagnosis or disability
(e.g., "person with schizophrenia" rather than "schizophrenic").
9. What is the primary purpose of establishing appropriate boundaries in
peer support relationships?
• Answer: To create a safe, ethical, and effective helping relationship that
protects both the peer worker and the person receiving support.
10. Which of the following is an example of appropriate self-disclosure in
peer support? - Answer: Sharing relevant aspects of your recovery journey
when it might benefit the individual you're supporting.
11. What is "dual relationships" in the context of peer support work? -
Answer: When a peer support worker has more than one type of relationship
with an individual (e.g., being both their peer supporter and their friend,
landlord, or business partner).
12. Which statement best describes the principle of cultural humility? -
Answer: A lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and critique, addressing
power imbalances, and developing mutually beneficial partnerships with
communities.
13. What is the primary focus of motivational interviewing techniques? -
Answer: Helping individuals resolve ambivalence about change by evoking
their own motivations and commitment to change.
14. Which of the following best describes the "stages of change" model? -
Answer: A framework that describes how people modify problematic behaviors
, through the stages of precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action,
maintenance, and sometimes relapse.
15. What is the purpose of a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)? -
Answer: A self-designed prevention and wellness process that helps people
maintain wellness and recover from mental health challenges by identifying
triggers, early warning signs, and strategies for maintaining wellness.
16. What does the acronym SAMHSA stand for? - Answer: Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration.
17. Which of the following is NOT one of the dimensions of wellness
according to SAMHSA's wellness framework? - Answer: Financial wellness.
(Note: While financial wellness is important, SAMHSA's traditional dimensions
include emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, social,
and spiritual wellness).
18. What is "recovery capital"? - Answer: The sum of resources that
individuals can draw upon to begin and sustain recovery from substance use and
mental health disorders, including personal, social, community, and cultural
resources.
19. Which of the following best describes the concept of "peer-delivered
services"? - Answer: Mental health services that are provided by individuals
who have lived experience with mental health challenges and are in recovery
themselves.
20. What is the primary goal of psychiatric rehabilitation? - Answer: To
help individuals with mental health conditions develop the skills and access the
resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful in their chosen
living, working, learning, and social environments.
21. Which of the following is an example of a natural support system? -
Answer: Friends, family members, neighbors, and community members who
provide unpaid support.
22. What is the primary difference between empathy and sympathy? -
Answer: Empathy involves understanding and sharing the feelings of another
person by putting yourself in their position, while sympathy involves feeling
compassion or sorrow for someone's misfortune without necessarily
understanding their experience.
23. Which of the following best describes the concept of "whole health" in
peer support? - Answer: An approach that addresses physical, mental,
mental health professionals?
• Answer: Peer support workers draw primarily from their lived experience
of mental health challenges and recovery rather than from clinical
training.
2. Which of the following best describes the recovery model in mental
health?
• Answer: A person-centered approach that emphasizes hope, personal
responsibility, education, self-advocacy, and support while focusing on a
person's ability to live a fulfilling life despite mental health challenges.
3. What does the term "mutual support" refer to in peer support work?
• Answer: The reciprocal process where individuals with similar
experiences provide emotional and practical support to each other,
fostering healing and growth for both parties.
4. Which core value emphasizes the importance of peer support workers
allowing individuals to make their own choices about their recovery
journey?
• Answer: Self-determination.
5. What is meant by the term "strengths-based approach" in peer support?
• Answer: An approach that focuses on identifying and building upon an
individual's existing strengths, abilities, and resources rather than
concentrating on deficits or problems.
6. Which of the following is NOT typically a role of a peer mental health
worker?
, • Answer: Diagnosing mental health conditions or prescribing medication.
7. What does "trauma-informed care" mean in the context of peer
support?
• Answer: An approach that recognizes the widespread impact of trauma,
understands potential paths for recovery, recognizes signs and symptoms
of trauma, and responds by integrating knowledge about trauma into
policies, procedures, and practices while actively avoiding re-
traumatization.
8. Which of the following best describes the concept of "person-first
language"?
• Answer: Language that puts the person before the diagnosis or disability
(e.g., "person with schizophrenia" rather than "schizophrenic").
9. What is the primary purpose of establishing appropriate boundaries in
peer support relationships?
• Answer: To create a safe, ethical, and effective helping relationship that
protects both the peer worker and the person receiving support.
10. Which of the following is an example of appropriate self-disclosure in
peer support? - Answer: Sharing relevant aspects of your recovery journey
when it might benefit the individual you're supporting.
11. What is "dual relationships" in the context of peer support work? -
Answer: When a peer support worker has more than one type of relationship
with an individual (e.g., being both their peer supporter and their friend,
landlord, or business partner).
12. Which statement best describes the principle of cultural humility? -
Answer: A lifelong commitment to self-evaluation and critique, addressing
power imbalances, and developing mutually beneficial partnerships with
communities.
13. What is the primary focus of motivational interviewing techniques? -
Answer: Helping individuals resolve ambivalence about change by evoking
their own motivations and commitment to change.
14. Which of the following best describes the "stages of change" model? -
Answer: A framework that describes how people modify problematic behaviors
, through the stages of precontemplation, contemplation, preparation, action,
maintenance, and sometimes relapse.
15. What is the purpose of a Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP)? -
Answer: A self-designed prevention and wellness process that helps people
maintain wellness and recover from mental health challenges by identifying
triggers, early warning signs, and strategies for maintaining wellness.
16. What does the acronym SAMHSA stand for? - Answer: Substance Abuse
and Mental Health Services Administration.
17. Which of the following is NOT one of the dimensions of wellness
according to SAMHSA's wellness framework? - Answer: Financial wellness.
(Note: While financial wellness is important, SAMHSA's traditional dimensions
include emotional, environmental, intellectual, occupational, physical, social,
and spiritual wellness).
18. What is "recovery capital"? - Answer: The sum of resources that
individuals can draw upon to begin and sustain recovery from substance use and
mental health disorders, including personal, social, community, and cultural
resources.
19. Which of the following best describes the concept of "peer-delivered
services"? - Answer: Mental health services that are provided by individuals
who have lived experience with mental health challenges and are in recovery
themselves.
20. What is the primary goal of psychiatric rehabilitation? - Answer: To
help individuals with mental health conditions develop the skills and access the
resources needed to increase their capacity to be successful in their chosen
living, working, learning, and social environments.
21. Which of the following is an example of a natural support system? -
Answer: Friends, family members, neighbors, and community members who
provide unpaid support.
22. What is the primary difference between empathy and sympathy? -
Answer: Empathy involves understanding and sharing the feelings of another
person by putting yourself in their position, while sympathy involves feeling
compassion or sorrow for someone's misfortune without necessarily
understanding their experience.
23. Which of the following best describes the concept of "whole health" in
peer support? - Answer: An approach that addresses physical, mental,
