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Washington state Certified Peer Counselor 2025
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Recovery is a process of change through which
SAMHSA definition of
individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-
recovery
directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.
Hope, person-driven, many pathways, holistic, peer
SAMHSA's elements of
support, relational, culture, addresses trauma,
recovery
strengths/responsibility, respect
the ability to adapt effectively and recover from
Resiliency
disappointment, difficulty, or crisis
Differing ideas about abstinence vs. harm reduction
recovery in substance use
disorders
Families are integral to true, support system, advocates, environmental
recovery for children change
medical: languages are overly clinical,
medical model vs. disempowering, do not promote hope. Recovery:
recovery model of care language and practices that are person centered and
promote hope and other recovery concepts
Placing the individual ahead of the challenge. Power
Person First Language
with. Model this. Strengths based. No jargon.
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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
Two ways peer supporters
guide on the side. share your own story of hope and
support recovery
overcoming challenges, support choice and
empowerment, encourage opportunities for
additional support
the turning point when we start to have the smallest
hope is essential for
belief that our lives can improve. The belief that a
recovery
positive outcome or better situation lies ahead.
listen actively, support engagement, ask recovery
Peer partner skills supported questions. SOLER, seat towards peer, open
posture, lean toward peer, eye contact, relax
quietly without judgement, lean in with curiosity,
Listen to meaning, feeling,
check your bias and your story, pay attention to
values
feeling and nonverbal cues
Demonstrating paraphrasing, reflecting feeling, responding to
understanding meaning
what's going to happen, why (what's in it for peer, why
Orienting
do it), how the process happens
types of questions open ended, direct, clarifying
focus on hope, share only when relevant, ask
Recovery story
permission, just the salt and pepper
safety, trustworthiness/transparency, peer support,
Supporting peers / trauma
collaboration and mutuality, empowerment voice and
resiliency
choice, cultural historical and gender issues
short stories share the message not the mess
acknowledge there is a problem, emphasize ground
rules, look for areas of agreement, affirm value of
approaching conflict different opinions, listen to everyone's point of view,
define conflict early, create solutions, choose a
solution
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COMPLETE STUDY QUIDE |QUESTION AND
CORRECT ANSWERS | GET IT RIGHT!!
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Terms in this set (78)
Recovery is a process of change through which
SAMHSA definition of
individuals improve their health and wellness, live self-
recovery
directed lives, and strive to reach their full potential.
Hope, person-driven, many pathways, holistic, peer
SAMHSA's elements of
support, relational, culture, addresses trauma,
recovery
strengths/responsibility, respect
the ability to adapt effectively and recover from
Resiliency
disappointment, difficulty, or crisis
Differing ideas about abstinence vs. harm reduction
recovery in substance use
disorders
Families are integral to true, support system, advocates, environmental
recovery for children change
medical: languages are overly clinical,
medical model vs. disempowering, do not promote hope. Recovery:
recovery model of care language and practices that are person centered and
promote hope and other recovery concepts
Placing the individual ahead of the challenge. Power
Person First Language
with. Model this. Strengths based. No jargon.
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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
Two ways peer supporters
guide on the side. share your own story of hope and
support recovery
overcoming challenges, support choice and
empowerment, encourage opportunities for
additional support
the turning point when we start to have the smallest
hope is essential for
belief that our lives can improve. The belief that a
recovery
positive outcome or better situation lies ahead.
listen actively, support engagement, ask recovery
Peer partner skills supported questions. SOLER, seat towards peer, open
posture, lean toward peer, eye contact, relax
quietly without judgement, lean in with curiosity,
Listen to meaning, feeling,
check your bias and your story, pay attention to
values
feeling and nonverbal cues
Demonstrating paraphrasing, reflecting feeling, responding to
understanding meaning
what's going to happen, why (what's in it for peer, why
Orienting
do it), how the process happens
types of questions open ended, direct, clarifying
focus on hope, share only when relevant, ask
Recovery story
permission, just the salt and pepper
safety, trustworthiness/transparency, peer support,
Supporting peers / trauma
collaboration and mutuality, empowerment voice and
resiliency
choice, cultural historical and gender issues
short stories share the message not the mess
acknowledge there is a problem, emphasize ground
rules, look for areas of agreement, affirm value of
approaching conflict different opinions, listen to everyone's point of view,
define conflict early, create solutions, choose a
solution
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