Peer Support is about helping someone develop personal responsibility, self-efficacy and self-advocacy skills.

• A. True
• B. False
• C. Only self-efficacy
• D. Only advocacy

Answer: (A)

Peer Support aims to empower individuals by building skills that promote independence and recovery. It uses shared lived experience to help someone take charge of their own path, which includes developing personal responsibility, building self-efficacy, and learning self-advocacy.

Personal responsibility means taking ownership of actions and decisions, recognizing consequences, and actively shaping outcomes. Self-efficacy is the belief that you can achieve goals and overcome obstacles with effort and strategies. Self-advocacy is about speaking up for needs and rights, and navigating systems to get appropriate support. In effective peer support, all three areas are developed together: the peer mentor models responsible decision-making, supports gradual increases in capability to accomplish tasks, and provides practice in advocating for services.

If it were limited to just one of these elements, it would miss important aspects of how peer support promotes empowerment. Therefore the statement is true.