Certified Peer Specialist TRAINING COURSE


Section 1
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Course Guide: Section 1 (3 hours 30 minutes)
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Grounding and Acknowledgments
9

Introductions
9

Course Overview
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Practicing Self-Care
11

Practicing Self-Care and Community Care
12

Activity: Planning Around Self-Care and Community Care
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Why peer support?
18

Understanding Privilege
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Section 2
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Course Guide: Section 2 (3 hours 35 minutes)
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Stigma and Marginalization Connected to Lived Experience
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Culture, Power, Privilege, and Peer Support
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Culturally Informed Approaches to Trauma
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The Need for Trauma-Informed Care
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Activity: Moving Toward Trauma-Informed Peer Support and Advocacy
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Review Questions
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Self-Survey – Part 1
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Self-Survey – Part 2
39

Section 3
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Course Guide: Section 3 (3 hours 30 minutes)
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Activity: Ethics Practice
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Confidentiality
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Professional Boundaries
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Resiliency
49

Understanding Developmental Trauma
51

Review Questions
57

Section 4
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Course Guide: Section 4 (3 hours 40 minutes)
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OARS Communication Skills Description
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Open Questions (OARS) Skill Description
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Activity: Open Questions
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Affirmation (OARS) Skill Description
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Activity: Affirmation 1
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Activity: Affirmation 2
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Reflection (OARS) Skill Description
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Activity: Reflection 1 – Listening Roadblocks
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Listening Roadblocks Cheat Sheet
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Activity: Reflection 2 – Strategies for Listening
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Activity: Reflection 3 – Nonverbal Listening
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Activity: Reflection 4 – Educated Guesses
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Activity: Reflection 5 – Educated Guesses (continued)
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Activity: Reflection 6 – Why Statements, Not Questions for Reflection
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Activity: Reflection 7 – Reflection as Statements
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Reflective Listening Cheat Sheet
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Activity: Reflection 8 – Practice
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Summary (OARS) Skill Description
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Activity: Summary
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Review Questions
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Section 5
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Course Guide: Section 5 (4 hours 15 minutes)
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Overview of Certified Peer Specialist Practice
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Exploring the Certified Peer Specialist Practice
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Principles of Strengths-Based Recovery
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The Connecting Process
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Connection for Healing
97

Initial Meeting
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Initial Meeting Checklist
99

OARS Skills Observer Sheet
101

OARS Measures and Calculations
102

Review Questions
103

Section 6
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Course Guide: Section 6 (3 hours 30 minutes)
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The Exploring Process
109

Sharing Mental Health, Substance Use, and Recovery Challenges with Others
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Advantages and Disadvantages Worksheet
113

Exploring Values
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Listening, Revisited
115

Activity: Circle Listening Practice
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Benefits of Listening Well
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Historical Context for Certified Peer Specialists
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Timeline of Systems Transformation and Western Consumer Involvement
121

Review Questions
128

Section 7
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Course Guide: Section 7 (3 hours 40 minutes)
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The Supporting Process
133

Sharing Information
135

Sharing Information Observer Sheet
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Self-Disclosure
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Activity: Self-Disclosure (Part 1)
140

Activity: Self-Disclosure (Part 2)
141

Setting Boundaries
142

Understanding Boundaries
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Setting Healthy Boundaries
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How to Set Healthy Boundaries
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Activity: Self-Reflection
148

Gentle Refusal
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Activity: Gentle Refusal Practice
151

Review Questions
152

Section 8
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Course Guide – Section 8 (4 hours 25 minutes)
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Mental Health and Substance Use Diagnosis Background
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Defining Recovery
160

Activity: Defining Recovery
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Exploring and Supporting Lived Experience
162

Lived Experience, Bias, and Stigma
164

Activity: Where Do We Stand
171

Multiple Pathways Identified
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Stages of Change
179

Activity: Exploring Ambivalence
183

Advantages and Disadvantages Worksheet
184

Review Questions
185

Section 9
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Course Guide – Section 9 (3 hours 10 minutes)
188

Exploring and Navigating Emotional Crisis
191

Conversations Around Suicide
192

Supporting a Peer Considering Suicide
193

Discussing Suicide for Peer Support
194

Self-Harm
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Activity: Perspective Taking on Self-Harm
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Review Questions
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Anger Questionnaire
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Section 10
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Course Guide – Section 10 (3 hours 40 minutes)
202

Discussing Spirituality and Religion
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Activity: Discussing Spirituality and Religion
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What is Anger?
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Preparing Response to Anger Worksheet
214

Responding to Anger in Peer Support
218

Communication Styles
220

Review Questions
221

Section 11
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Course Guide – Section 11 (3 hours 40 minutes)
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The Planning Process
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Activity: The Process of Planning
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Brainstorming
232

Language Matters
233

Activity: Planning Possibilities
237

Review Questions
238

Section 12
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Course Guide – Section 12 (2 hours 35 minutes)
240

The Advocating Process
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Areas for Advocacy
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Activity: Exploring Advocacy
247

Certified Peer Specialists on Integrated Teams
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Mental Health and Substance Use Diagnoses
253

Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid
265

HIPAA
266

The Americans with Disabilities Act
269

Wisconsin Client Rights
271

Involuntary Commitment
274

Review Questions
276

Section 13
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Course Guide – Section 13 (3 hours 40 minutes)
278

The Choice is Yours…
281

Concluding the Peer Relationship
282

Best Practices for Concluding the Peer Relationship
284

Next Steps
285

Overview of Certified Peer Specialist Practice
286

Wrap Up and Celebrate Success
288

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