Walking Beside Everyone: Exploring and Managing Recovery Pathway Bias in Peer Support

Tuesday, Jul 30, 2024 • 12 pm to 1 pm

Virtual

Training Sessions

Abstract

“Peer Recovery Support Specialists have a responsibility to help persons in recovery achieve their personal recovery goals by promoting self-determination, personal responsibility, and the empowerment inherent in self-directed recovery.”[1] Or, as Bill White says, “There are many pathways to addiction recovery, and all are cause for celebration,” but what does that look like in professional peer support services? Along with lived expertise, peers may bring cultural affiliation to their practice, (e.g., AA, NA, Celebrate Recovery, etc.), traditionally abstinence-based and spiritually centered pathways. How can peers balance recovery pathway affinity and passion with their credential’s ethical mandate to support authentically participants on pathways other than their own? This session will explore various pathways of recovery, ethical considerations around peer services, a tool to examine beliefs, and strategies to manage any biases that may impede compassionate best practice.


[1] NAADAC National Certified Peer Recovery Support Specialist (NCPRSS) Code of Ethics

Objectives

  1. Learn ways that peer specialists can support and enhance recovery.
  2. Identify how stigma can be a barrier to recovery and may cause safety concerns.
  3. Build understanding of ways to respect individual paths of recovery while honoring personal values.
  4. Identify one implicit bias that may contribute to stigma and choose ways to manage it.

Accreditation

PHYSICIAN (CME)

The University of Pittsburgh designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

NURSING (CNE)

A maximum of 1.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded. Participants will be able to claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the program.

SOCIAL WORK

As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Pittsburgh is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. University of Pittsburgh maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive 1.0 continuing education credits.

Psychologist (APA)

Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

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