Peer Recovery Specialist Certification
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SAMHSA specifies 4 major dimensions that support a life in recovery. - ✔✔Health, home, purpose, &
community
Health - ✔✔Managing ones disease(s) as well as living as well as living in a physically & emotionally
healthy way.
Home - ✔✔A stable & safe place to live.
Community - ✔✔Relationships & social networks that provide support, friendship, love , and hope.
Purpose - ✔✔Meaningful daily activities, such as job school volunteerism, family care-taking, or
creative endeavors, and the independence, income and resources that participate in society.
Guiding principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY EMERGES FROM HOPE. The belief that recovery is
possible provides the essential and motivating message of a better future. That people can and do
overcome the internal and external challenges, barriers, and obstacles that confront them.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS PERSON DRIVEN. Recovery is self determined & self
directed, with individuals defining their own life goals and designing their own unique path to recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY OCCURS VIA MANY PATHWAYS. Individuals are unique
with distinct needs, strengths, preferences, goals, culture, and backgrounds that affect and determine
their individual pathways to recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS HOLISTIC. recovery encompasses an individuals
whole life, including mind, body, spirit and community.
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, Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED MY PEERS AMD ALLIES. Mutual support
and mutual aid groups, including he sharing of experiential knowledge and skills, plan an invaluable role
in recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL
NETWORKS. An important factor in the recovery process is the presence and involvement of people
who: believe in a persons ability to recover, offer hope support and encouragement. Suggest strategies
and resources for change. Role model positive behaviors and attitudes.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS CULTURALLY BASED AND INFLUENCED. Culture and
cultural background in all of its diverse representations- including values, traditions and beliefs-are keys
in determining a persons journey and unique pathway to recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS BASED ON RESPECT. Community, systems, societal
acceptance and appreciation for people affected by mental health and substance abuse disorders-
including protecting their rights and eliminating discrimination- are crucial in achieving recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED BY ADDRESSING TRAUMA. Services and
supports should be trauma-informed to foster safety (physical & emotional) and trust, as well as
promote choice, empowerment and collaboration.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY INVOLVES INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY
STRENGTHS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. These have strengths and resources that serve as a foundation for
recovery.
4 types of support offered by peer recovery specialists - ✔✔Emotional, informational, instrumental
(tangible), & affiliation (support in building relationships)
Goals of peer recovery support - ✔✔Instill hope, reduce stigma, be a role model of strength, survival &
growth, decrease isolation by promoting connection, support person centered, & engage in mutual
learning as equals.
Stigma - ✔✔The experience of being deeply Discredited due to one's perceived in undesired
different nurse. It was a cluster of negative attitudes or believes he'll buy the general public about
people with substance use disorders or mental illness.
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Questions and Answers 100% pass | graded
A+
SAMHSA specifies 4 major dimensions that support a life in recovery. - ✔✔Health, home, purpose, &
community
Health - ✔✔Managing ones disease(s) as well as living as well as living in a physically & emotionally
healthy way.
Home - ✔✔A stable & safe place to live.
Community - ✔✔Relationships & social networks that provide support, friendship, love , and hope.
Purpose - ✔✔Meaningful daily activities, such as job school volunteerism, family care-taking, or
creative endeavors, and the independence, income and resources that participate in society.
Guiding principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY EMERGES FROM HOPE. The belief that recovery is
possible provides the essential and motivating message of a better future. That people can and do
overcome the internal and external challenges, barriers, and obstacles that confront them.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS PERSON DRIVEN. Recovery is self determined & self
directed, with individuals defining their own life goals and designing their own unique path to recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY OCCURS VIA MANY PATHWAYS. Individuals are unique
with distinct needs, strengths, preferences, goals, culture, and backgrounds that affect and determine
their individual pathways to recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS HOLISTIC. recovery encompasses an individuals
whole life, including mind, body, spirit and community.
This study source was downloaded by 100000847097152 from CourseHero.com on 10-11-2025 11:22:05 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/224849659/Peer-Recovery-Specialist-Certificationpdf/
, Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED MY PEERS AMD ALLIES. Mutual support
and mutual aid groups, including he sharing of experiential knowledge and skills, plan an invaluable role
in recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED THROUGH RELATIONSHIPS AND SOCIAL
NETWORKS. An important factor in the recovery process is the presence and involvement of people
who: believe in a persons ability to recover, offer hope support and encouragement. Suggest strategies
and resources for change. Role model positive behaviors and attitudes.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS CULTURALLY BASED AND INFLUENCED. Culture and
cultural background in all of its diverse representations- including values, traditions and beliefs-are keys
in determining a persons journey and unique pathway to recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS BASED ON RESPECT. Community, systems, societal
acceptance and appreciation for people affected by mental health and substance abuse disorders-
including protecting their rights and eliminating discrimination- are crucial in achieving recovery.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY IS SUPPORTED BY ADDRESSING TRAUMA. Services and
supports should be trauma-informed to foster safety (physical & emotional) and trust, as well as
promote choice, empowerment and collaboration.
Guiding Principles of recovery - ✔✔RECOVERY INVOLVES INDIVIDUAL, FAMILY, AND COMMUNITY
STRENGTHS AND RESPONSIBILITIES. These have strengths and resources that serve as a foundation for
recovery.
4 types of support offered by peer recovery specialists - ✔✔Emotional, informational, instrumental
(tangible), & affiliation (support in building relationships)
Goals of peer recovery support - ✔✔Instill hope, reduce stigma, be a role model of strength, survival &
growth, decrease isolation by promoting connection, support person centered, & engage in mutual
learning as equals.
Stigma - ✔✔The experience of being deeply Discredited due to one's perceived in undesired
different nurse. It was a cluster of negative attitudes or believes he'll buy the general public about
people with substance use disorders or mental illness.
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