Peer Support Specialist Values, Ethics, & Boundaries
for Nebraska Certified Peer Support Specialists (CPSS), CPSS supervisors, professionals in psychology, behavioral health, and social work
Presented by Lisa Goodale
Videos
The following videos are Part 1 and Part 2 of Lisa Goodale’s training on the “Peer Support Specialist Values, Ethics, and Boundaries.” This presentation discusses Peer Support Specialist values and ethics based on the Nebraska Peer Support Specialist Code of Ethics and their relationship to values and ethics of licensed behavioral health clinicians.
Part 1:
Peer Support Specialist Values,
Ethics, & Boundaries
(Lisa Goodale)
Part 2:
Peer Support Specialist Values,
Ethics, & Boundaries
(Lisa Goodale)
Description:
This presentation discusses Peer Support Specialist values and ethics based on the Nebraska Peer Support Specialist Code of Ethics and their relationship to values and ethics of licensed behavioral health clinicians. The presentation also explores the relationship between personal and professional boundaries and provides service delivery scenarios for application of Peer Support Specialist ethical principles.
Date Presented: Wed., Jan. 31, 2024 9:30am – 2:30pm (Central)
Date Training Expires: Jan. 31, 2026
Objectives:
- Identify similarities and differences between the role and ethics of a Peer Support Specialist and those of clinicians.
- Discuss how personal boundaries relate to ethics, for both Peer Support Specialists and supervisors.
- Identify personal and agency strategies for productively addressing conflicts involving peer support values and ethics.
- Demonstrate provisions of the Nebraska Certified Peer Support Specialist (CPSS) Code of Ethics values and principles with a scenario.
Supporting Material
About the Speaker
Lisa Goodale
Lisa Goodale is Training Maven/Senior Training Director for Humannovations and an independent consultant in the fields of behavioral health and wellness, peer support services, and the meaningful inclusion of people with lived recovery experience in decision making and leadership. She has served as a consultant with Westat and as Quality Assurance Manager with Affirma Solutions for the SAMHSA Evidence-Based Resource Development Guides (EBRD) initiative. A past Vice President for the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance (DBSA) national headquarters, Goodale was instrumental in securing and managed a $1M+ national peer specialist training and certification contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs. Goodale has trained Peer Specialists in 18 states with DBSA and Appalachian Consulting Group.
Goodale has been a featured speaker at Congressional Briefings and the Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy. She has also co-authored several publications, including Pillars of peer support: transforming mental health systems of care through peer support services, published by The College for Behavioral Health Leadership.
She holds an MSW degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a BA degree from Augustana College (Illinois). It is her joy and special privilege to have been invited along on the recovery journeys of so many courageous people.
These trainings were funded in whole or in part by funds from the SAMHSA Community Mental Health Block Grant, SAMHSA Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant and state funds sub-granted from the Nebraska Department of Health and Services, Division of Behavioral Health.