Ethics cont'd Flashcards
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Support Choice
1) Peer supporters do not force or coerce others to participate in peer support services or ANY OTHER service.
2) Respect the rights of individuals to choose or cease support services or use the services of another peer supporter.
3) Peer supporters have the right to choose not to work with individuals with a particular background if the peer supporter’s personal issues or lack of expertise could interfere with the ability to provide effective support to these individuals.
4) Peer supporters advocate for choice when they observe coercion in any mental health or substance use service setting.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Withhold judgment about others
1) Peer supporters EMBRACE DIFFERENCES of those they support as potential learning opportunities.
2) Peer supporters RESPECT AN INDIVIDUAL’S RIGHT TO CHOOSE the pathways to recovery individuals believe will work best for them.
3) Peer supporters connect with others WHERE AND AS THEY ARE.
4) Peer supporters do not evaluate or assess others.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Share Hope
1) Peer supporters tell strategic stories of their personal recovery in relation to current struggles faced by those who are being supported.
2) Peer supporters MODEL RECOVERY BEHAVIORS at work and act as ambassadors of recovery in all aspects of their work.
3) Peer supporters help others reframe life challenges as opportunities for personal growth.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Listen with emotional sensitivity
1) Peer supporters practice effective listening skills that are non-judgmental.
2) Peer supporters understand that even though others may share similar life experiences, the range of responses may vary considerably.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Be curious and embrace diversity
1) Peer supporters embrace DIVERSITY OF CULTURE AND THOUGHT as a means of personal growth for those they support and themselves.
2) Peer supporters encourage others to explore how differences can contribute to their lives and the lives of those around them.
3) Peer supporters practice patience, kindness, warmth and dignity with everyone they interact with in their work.
4) Peer supporters treat each person they encounter with dignity and see them as worthy of all basic human rights.
5) Peer supporters embrace the full range of cultural experiences, strengths, and approaches to recovery for those they support and themselves.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Educate and advocate
- Peer supporters recognize and find appropriate ways to call attention to injustices.
- Peer supporters strive to understand how injustices may affect people.
- Peer supporters encourage, coach, and inspire those they support to challenge and overcome injustices.
- Peer supporters use language that is supportive, encouraging, inspiring, motivating and respectful.
- Peer supporters help those they support explore areas in need of change for themselves and others.
- Peer supporters recognize injustices peers face in all contexts and act as advocates and facilitate change where appropriate.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Address difficult issues with caring and compassion
- Peer supporters respect privacy and confidentiality.
- Peer supporters engage, when desired by those they support, in candid, honest discussions about stigma, abuse, oppression, crisis or safety.
- Peer supporters exercise compassion and caring in peer support relationships.
- Peer supporters do not make false promises, misrepresented themselves, other or circumstances.
- Peer supporters strive to build peer relationships based on integrity, honesty, respect and trust.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Embody Equality
1) Peer supporters use language that reflects a MUTUAL RELATIONSHIP with those they support.
2) Peer supporters behave in ways that reflect respect and mutuality with those they support.
3) Peer supporters do not express or exercise power over those they support.
4) Peer supporters do not diagnose or offer medical services, but do offer a complementary service.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: See what’s strong not what’s wrong
1) Peer supporters encourage others to identify their strengths and use them to improve their lives.
2) Peer supporters focus on the strengths of those they support.
3) Peer supporters use their own experiences to demonstrate the use of one’s strengths, and to encourage and inspire those they support.
4) Peer supporters encourage others to explore dreams and goals meaningful to those they support.
5) Peer supporters operate from a strength-based perspective and acknowledge the strengths, informed choices and decisions of peers as a foundation of recovery.
6) Peer supporters don’t fix or do for others what they can do for themselves.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Set clear expectations and use plain language
- Peer supporters clearly explain what can or cannot be expected of the peer support relationship.
- Peer supporters use language that is clear, understandable, and value/judgment free.
- Peer supporters use language that is supportive and respectful.
- Peer supporters provide support in a professional, yet humanistic manner.
- Peer supporters roles are distinct from the roles of other behavioral health service professionals.
- Peer supporters make only promises they can keep and use accurate statements.
- Peer supporters do not diagnose nor do they prescribe or recommend medications or monitor their use.
National Practice Guideline for Peer Supporters
Practice: Focus on the person, not the problems
- Peer supporters encourage those they support to make their own decisions.
- Peer supporters, when appropriate, offer options to those they serve.
- Peer supporters encourage those they serve to try new things.
- Peer supporters help others learn from mistakes.
- Peer supporters encourage resilience.
- Peer supporters encourage personal growth in others.
- Peer supporters encourage and coach those they support to decide what they want in life and how to achieve it without judgment.
FCB Code of Ethics
- Professional Standards.
1.1. An applicant or certified professional
shall meet and comply with all terms, conditions, or limitations of any professional credential they hold.
FCB Code of Ethics
- Professional Standards.
1.2. An applicant or certified professional
shall not perform services outside of their area of training, expertise, competence, or scope of practice
FCB Code of Ethics
- Professional Standards.
1.3. An applicant or certified professional
shall not , in any way, participate in discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, socio-economic status, political belief, psychiatric or psychological impairment, physical disability, or the amount of previous therapeutic or treatment occurrences.
FCB Code of Ethics
- Professional Standards.
1.4. An applicant or certified professional
shall place their application or credential(s) on inactive status for any mental, physical, or behavioral health related adversity that interferes with their professional functioning.
FCB Code of Ethics
- Professional Standards.
1.5. An applicant or certified professional
shall not practice during the period of any denial, suspension, revocation, probation, or other restriction or discipline on certification, license, or other authorization to practice issued by any certification authority or any state, province, territory, tribe, or the federal government.