Day 1 - Recovery 101 Study Set

Vocabulary flashcards covering core definitions and concepts from the Day 1 Recovery 101 Cal Voices course material.

Recovery

A process of change through which individuals improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.

Medical Model

Focuses on diagnosis, treatment, symptom reduction, medication, hospitalization, and functioning. Uses an external locus of control.

Recovery Model

Focuses on the whole person, lived experience, hope, empowerment, choice, self-advocacy, and self-identified goals. Uses an internal locus of control.

Self-Directed

The person has a central role in deciding what recovery looks like and what goals matter to them.

Abstinence

A zero-tolerance approach in which recovery requires permanently stopping the use of harmful substances.

Harm Reduction

An approach that supports safer use, recognizes recovery may be gradual, and allows multiple pathways to recovery.

4 Major Dimensions of Recovery

Health, Home, Purpose, Community.

Health Dimension

Overcoming or managing illness or symptoms and making informed, healthy choices that support physical and emotional wellbeing.

Home Dimension

Having a stable and safe place to live.

Purpose Dimension

Meaningful daily activities such as work, school, volunteerism, family caretaking, or creative endeavors, plus the independence, income, and resources to participate in society.

Community Dimension

Relationships and social networks that provide support, friendship, love, and hope.

10 Guiding Principles of Recovery

Hope; Person-Driven; Many Pathways; Holistic; Peer Support; Relational; Culture; Addresses Trauma; Strengths/Responsibility; Respect.

Hope

The catalyst of the recovery process; the belief that recovery is real and people can overcome challenges, barriers, and obstacles.

Person-Driven

Founded on self-determination and self-direction: defining one's own life goals and designing unique paths toward those goals.

Many Pathways

Recovery is highly personalized and non-linear and may include different treatments, services, supports, and setbacks.

Holistic

Recovery encompasses the whole life, including mind, body, spirit, and community.

Peer Support

Recovery is supported by peers and allies who encourage and engage one another and provide belonging, supportive relationships, valued roles, and community.

Relational

Recovery is supported through relationships and social networks.

Culture

Culture and background are keys in determining a person's unique pathway to recovery, and services should be culturally grounded and personalized.

Addresses Trauma

Recovery is supported by addressing trauma; services and supports should foster physical and emotional safety, trust, choice, empowerment, and collaboration.

Trauma

An intense, disturbing experience that causes significant and lasting physical and psychological stress reactions; it may be direct or witnessed.

Strengths/Responsibility

Recovery involves individual, family, and community strengths and responsibility.

Respect

Recovery is based on community, system, and societal acceptance and appreciation, protection of rights, and elimination of discrimination.

5 Barriers to Recovery

Stigma; Frenzied Savior Response; Imperative to Use Medication; Overreliance on Professionals; Devaluation of Professionals.

Frenzied Savior Response

A helping pattern that may move from wanting to help into intrusion, pushing harder, frustration, resentment, blame, cynicism, withdrawal, giving up, and hopelessness when progress does not happen as expected.

Idiot Compassion

Helping that may be inwardly focused and transactional and may involve rescuing, enabling, controlling, lack of understanding, or solving the wrong problem.

Real Compassion

Meets the person where they are, focuses on the person being helped, assesses before responding, addresses root causes, seeks outcomes that produce the most good, and maintains boundaries.

4 Reasons for Recovery-Oriented Care

Evidence-based practice; MHSA requirement; addresses limitations of the Medical Model; Peer Certification mandate.

WRAP

Wellness and Recovery Action Plan; a structured system of self-monitoring distressing feelings and behaviors.

5 WRAP Key Recovery Concepts

Hope; Personal Responsibility; Education; Self Advocacy; Support.

CommonGround

A web-based application that helps clients prepare to meet with psychiatrists or treatment teams and supports shared decision-making.

QoL Prescriptions

A strategy that connects people with basic resources affecting health, including food, housing, income supports, utilities, health insurance, job search/training, adult education, childcare, clothing, and after-school programs.

M.O.R.S

Milestones of Recovery Scale; measures levels of risk, engagement, and skills/external supports.

M.O.R.S Measures

Levels of risk, engagement, and skills/external supports

Peer Support Strategy

An evidence-based practice that enhances or complements professional care and works through the Peer Principle, Helper Principle, empowerment, and advocacy.

What Peer Providers Do

Support groups, peer counseling, advocacy, personal plan creation, W.R.A.P, health education/navigation, cultural brokerage, system navigation and service referrals, benefits/healthcare acquisition, crisis intervention.

Recovery Requires (2)*

Individual determination and the support of others.

Medical Model Limitations (7)*

May miss external risk and protective factors, emotional experiences, personal motivations, individual differences, psychological impacts of illness and treatment approaches, biases and judgments, and whole person care.

Recovery Oriented Care

It improves a person's whole life, not just symptoms or diagnosis; starts with believing people can and do recover, removes barriers to engagement and participation, empowers individuals to take charge of their lives, and addresses personal risk and proactive factors.

6 Strategies to Promote Recovery-Oriented Care

Peer support services, WISE tools and trainings, W.R.A.P, CommonGround, QoL prescriptions, M.O.R.S

4 Reasons for Recovery-Oriented Care

Evidence based practice

MHSA requirements

Addresses limitations of the Medical Model

Peer Certification mandate