Practitioner Exam Prep | Highly Rated Guide
with 100% Correct Verified Answers (2023/
2024 Update)
QUESTION
Definition of Supports
Answer:
-the people, places, things, and activities that keep people going from day to day.
QUESTION
3 Interventions to Build Supports:
Answer:
1. Acquiring Resources
2. Linking to Resources
3. Creating Resources
QUESTION
Acquiring Resources
Answer:
-helping a person access or obtain an existing thing or activity.
QUESTION
Linking to Resources
Answer:
,-making a connection to an existing service or support and is more complicated than resource
acquisition.
QUESTION
Peer Support Definition
Answer:
-a process of sharing mutuality, giving and receiving hope, strengths, and lived experiences.
QUESTION
Peer Support Services Definition
Answer:
-are programs, discussions, events, groups, etc. within the mental health system that are led by
people in recovery and are based on the philosophy of peer support.
QUESTION
Certified Peer Specialists
Answer:
-a workforce that models the lived experience of recovery to promote hope and teach skills for
self-directed recovery and mind-body whole health and resiliency..
QUESTION
Peer Support Competencies
Answer:
1. Understanding and Fulfilling the Peer Worker Role
2. Empowerment
3. Recovery
4. Building Relationships
5. Service Delivery
6. Documentation
,QUESTION
Respite Services
Answer:
-provides peers a place to stay for up to 7 nights when they are in serious emotional distress.
-lack of clinical atmosphere encourages individuals to move towards recovery while not
interfering with their existing routines.
QUESTION
Community Defined Evidence Practices (CDEP)
Answer:
1. Engage people who might otherwise not use mental health services or prematurely terminate
2. Reduce disparities by improving access, quality, availability, and positive outcomes
3. Create evidence and effectiveness from the ground up to be used for research, evaluation,
funding, advocacy, and policy development.
QUESTION
Stress Inoculation Training (SIT)
Answer:
-the concept of medical immunization where one builds psychological antibodies or coping skills
to resist the toxicity of stress.
QUESTION
Inoculation Against Discrimination (IAD)
Answer:
-intervention aimed at resisting the internalization of accumulated, daily micro-aggressions to
strengthen one's resistance against potential discriminatory experiences.
, QUESTION
Supported Housing Model
Answer:
-people should be housed in the environment of their choice and have ready access to intensive,
flexible personalized support services that would help them to succeed in their living
environment.
QUESTION
Pathways to Housing First Model (PHF)
Answer:
- provides housing that does not require readiness, treatment, or sobriety as preconditions for
getting into housing.
-believes that housing is a basic human right, not something that people must earn or prove they
deserve by complying with treatment.
QUESTION
"Housing First"
Answer:
-reserves the approach of care demanding treatment and sobriety first.
-referring to individuals' expressed choice about what problem they would like to deal with first.
QUESTION
Core Values of Pathways Housing First
Answer:
1. All people have a right to housing
2. People with psychiatric disabilities should not have to prove that they are 'housing ready' nor
'earn the right to housing' by complying with psychiatric treatment or attaining sobriety
3. Strengths are appreciated, and each person's potential for creativity, growth, and recovery is
acknowledged, honored, and encouraged.
4. Respect, hope, and creating possibilities are the foundations of helping.