Exploring and Supporting Lived Experience (Core Competencies: 1.8; 1.11; 2.2; 2.7; 2.8; 2.9; 2.10; 3.3; 4.4; 4.6; 4.8 4.17) The medical model features assessment of problem symptoms and application of criteria to diagnose a person’s experiences. Peer support takes a person-centered, strengths-based, and recovery-oriented approach to understanding a person’s lived experience. The intersection of exploring and supporting processes is considered here.
Exploring • What can be some roadblocks to being open and curious about a peer’s lived experience regarding a diagnosis?
• How can we be open and curious to a peer whose experience may be: o Different from our own experience.
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