Peer Professionalism

“Peer Professionalism and Ethics”

This course provides the basic fundamentals of professionalism and ethics as a Peer Support Specialist. This course is grounded in the premise that everyone has the potential to commit an ethical violation or violate professional expectations. The course addresses and remediates issues rooted in lack of adherence to laws, rules, guidelines, codes, or policies. During the course, participants examine how and why their professional practices, responses to stress, and personal or situational factors initially put them at risk for exercising poor judgment or rationalizing improper behavior.

Some of the topics covered are: professional conduct, what to do and what not to do in various situations, appropriate dress (both in the work place and when conducting yourself outside of the workplace but representing yourself as a CPRS), business and peer etiquette, communication, ethical and professional dilemmas, expectations as a peer support specialist, code of ethics, ethical core competencies, how to handle difficult situations in a professional manner, boundaries as a peer, how to “lead by example”, standard guidelines, policies and procedures and more.

This is an 8 hour course conducted asynchronously, in a group (via group discussions), on Zoom and in person. The course provides 4 ceu’s in Ethic’s and 4 ceu’s in Mentoring and Education.