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PCB CRS EXAM - Questions + Verified Answer
Explanations
Questions and Mark scheme
Version: Final 1.1
,Transformation definition: - ✔✔• The term was picked by the Commission to show that more reforms to the existing
mental health system are insufficient.
• It has implications for policy, funding, practice, attitudes, and beliefs.
Do people addicted to alcohol and other drugs recover? - ✔✔Yes. More than 50% of people with substance use
disorders recover.
Do people with severe mental health diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, recover? - ✔✔Yes, and faster than people think.
The 12 Guiding Principles of Recovery: - ✔✔1. There are many pathways to recovery.
2. Recovery is self-directed and empowering (• Strength-based, • Person-first {Person before dysfunction}, • Person-
directed {choice & decision-making power about one's own recovery}).
3. Recovery involves a personal recognition of the need for change and transformation.
4. Recovery is holistic.
5. Recovery has cultural dimensions.
6. Recovery exists on a continuum of improved health and wellness.
7. Recovery is supported by peers and allies.
8. Recovery emerges from hope and gratitude.
9. Recovery involves a process of healing and self-redefinition.
10. Recovery involves addressing discrimination and transcending shame and stigma.
11. Recovery involves (re)joining and (re)building a life in the community.
12. Recovery is a reality.
As a person achieves more and more abstinence time... - ✔✔the likelihood that they will remain abstinent goes up.
Treatment ≠ Recovery BECAUSE... - ✔✔1. Recovery is larger construct. Treatment can be part of but is not equal to
recovery.
2. Goal of treatment - absence of symptoms
3. Goal of recovery - holistic health
4. Treatment alone does not address challenges such as family, employment, housing, etc.
5. Recovery is different for each individual
6. Social determinants of health need to be addressed.
, MOTIVATION... - ✔✔plays a central role in recovery.
• Motivation to change comes from "hitting bottom"
• Motivation is increased when others stop enabling the individual or by intervention
• Motivation to avoid pain
Defining Peer Based Recovery Support Services (PBRSS). What Are PBRSS? - ✔✔• Help individuals and families initiate,
stabilize, and sustain recovery
• Non-clinical services that assist in removing barriers and providing resources to those contemplating, initiating, and
maintaining recovery
• Links to professional treatment and indigenous communities of support
• They are not:
• Professional addiction treatment services
• Mutual aid support
PBRSS... - ✔✔• Draw on the power of example and lived experience.
• Draw on the desire to "give back."
• Based on the idea that both people in a relationship based on mutuality and collaboration are helped and empowered
PBRSS are Delivered... - ✔✔Across the full continuum of the recovery process, which includes:
• Prior to treatment
• During treatment
• Post treatment
• In lieu of treatment
Recovery Support
Integration Model - ✔✔Engagement > Increasing Readiness > Stabilizing Recovery > Sustaining & Growing Recovery
P-BRSS (Peer-Based Recovery Support Services) - ✔✔PIR's (Persons in Recovery) are "experts" on themselves
PIR's dictate the direction of services
Strengths- based, focus on long-term recovery
Lived experience is key ingredient in service providers
Support services often are provided out in the community
PCB CRS EXAM - Questions + Verified Answer
Explanations
Questions and Mark scheme
Version: Final 1.1
,Transformation definition: - ✔✔• The term was picked by the Commission to show that more reforms to the existing
mental health system are insufficient.
• It has implications for policy, funding, practice, attitudes, and beliefs.
Do people addicted to alcohol and other drugs recover? - ✔✔Yes. More than 50% of people with substance use
disorders recover.
Do people with severe mental health diagnoses, such as schizophrenia, recover? - ✔✔Yes, and faster than people think.
The 12 Guiding Principles of Recovery: - ✔✔1. There are many pathways to recovery.
2. Recovery is self-directed and empowering (• Strength-based, • Person-first {Person before dysfunction}, • Person-
directed {choice & decision-making power about one's own recovery}).
3. Recovery involves a personal recognition of the need for change and transformation.
4. Recovery is holistic.
5. Recovery has cultural dimensions.
6. Recovery exists on a continuum of improved health and wellness.
7. Recovery is supported by peers and allies.
8. Recovery emerges from hope and gratitude.
9. Recovery involves a process of healing and self-redefinition.
10. Recovery involves addressing discrimination and transcending shame and stigma.
11. Recovery involves (re)joining and (re)building a life in the community.
12. Recovery is a reality.
As a person achieves more and more abstinence time... - ✔✔the likelihood that they will remain abstinent goes up.
Treatment ≠ Recovery BECAUSE... - ✔✔1. Recovery is larger construct. Treatment can be part of but is not equal to
recovery.
2. Goal of treatment - absence of symptoms
3. Goal of recovery - holistic health
4. Treatment alone does not address challenges such as family, employment, housing, etc.
5. Recovery is different for each individual
6. Social determinants of health need to be addressed.
, MOTIVATION... - ✔✔plays a central role in recovery.
• Motivation to change comes from "hitting bottom"
• Motivation is increased when others stop enabling the individual or by intervention
• Motivation to avoid pain
Defining Peer Based Recovery Support Services (PBRSS). What Are PBRSS? - ✔✔• Help individuals and families initiate,
stabilize, and sustain recovery
• Non-clinical services that assist in removing barriers and providing resources to those contemplating, initiating, and
maintaining recovery
• Links to professional treatment and indigenous communities of support
• They are not:
• Professional addiction treatment services
• Mutual aid support
PBRSS... - ✔✔• Draw on the power of example and lived experience.
• Draw on the desire to "give back."
• Based on the idea that both people in a relationship based on mutuality and collaboration are helped and empowered
PBRSS are Delivered... - ✔✔Across the full continuum of the recovery process, which includes:
• Prior to treatment
• During treatment
• Post treatment
• In lieu of treatment
Recovery Support
Integration Model - ✔✔Engagement > Increasing Readiness > Stabilizing Recovery > Sustaining & Growing Recovery
P-BRSS (Peer-Based Recovery Support Services) - ✔✔PIR's (Persons in Recovery) are "experts" on themselves
PIR's dictate the direction of services
Strengths- based, focus on long-term recovery
Lived experience is key ingredient in service providers
Support services often are provided out in the community
