Roads to Recovery Flashcards
Definition of Recovery
A PROCESS OF CHANGE whereby individuals improve their health and wellness, to live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
10 guiding principles of recovery…1-5
- Emerges from HOPE
- Person-driven
- Many pathways
- Holistic
- SUPPORTED by peer and allies
10 guiding principles of recovery…6-10
- Supported through relationships and social networks
- Culturally based
- Supported by addressing trauma
- Involves the individual, family, and community
- Based on respect
Four Dimensions of Recovery
- Health
- Home
- Purpose
- Community
Four Dimension of Recovery
Health definition
Overcoming or managing one’s disease or symptoms. Making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional well-being.
Four Dimensions of Recovery
Home definition
Having a stable and safe place to live
Four Dimensions of Recovery
Purpose definition
Conducting meaningful daily activities, such as a job, school, volunteerism, family caretaking, or creative endeavors, and the independence, income, and resources to participate in society.
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Community Definition
Having relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope
Research shows that peer support is effective in…
- ENGAGING AND RETAINING people in mental health and addiction services
- supporting individuals in playing ACTIVE ROLES in their treatment through EMPOWERMENT
- LOWERING re-hospitalization rates
- REDUCING use of crisis and emergency room services for treatment
Peer services play crucial roles in helping individuals to advance their wellness and recoveries in the community, demonstrating a significant role in: 1-6
- Increasing overall satisfaction with services
- Providing KNOWLEDGE about psychiatric disorder and addictions, and their management
- Assisting in connecting to communities
- REDUCING symptoms and/or substance use
- Improvements in practical outcomes, e.g. employment, housing, and finances
- Increasing ability to cope with stress
Peer services play crucial roles in helping individuals to advance their wellness and recoveries in the community, demonstrating a significant role in: 7-12
- Increasing quality of life
- Increasing ability to communicate with mainstream providers
- Positive outcomes in chronic illness
- Significant reductions in inpatient days
- Significant increases in outpatient services
- Reducing return to use and initiating recovery engagement when return to use occurs
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Personal Responsibility
We are responsible for the progress we make in our lives. Peers help individuals do for themselves what they need to take care of themselves. Individuals are the experts on themselves.
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Self determination and courage
As Peer Specialists, our job is to encourage others to develop and maintain a sense of self-determination and courage in the face of fear.
WARNING signs that we are not letting persons served exercise personal choices in their recovery and/or that we are not adhering to important person-centered principles in our supportive role
- The CRPS does the majority of the talking during meetings.
- The CRPS, alone, shares ideas but does not encourage the individual served to share his/hers.
- The CRPS is annoyed when he/she is not involved in every decision that is made.
- The CRPS is not concerned when he or she attends meetings without the individual served present.
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The peer support relationship and power…
create mutually responsible relationships and foster a “horizontal playing field” where power is shared equally.
