Self-Care & Mentor Wellness Flashcards

The phrase 'put on your oxygen mask first' in the context of recovery mentorship refers to:

Answer: The importance of maintaining the mentor's own wellbeing before helping others

Just as airline safety requires securing your own mask before helping others, effective mentors must prioritize their own wellbeing to sustain helping others.

Mindfulness practices support CRM wellness primarily by:

Answer: Enhancing present-moment awareness and reducing stress reactivity

Mindfulness builds the mentor's capacity to stay grounded, reduce stress, and maintain emotional regulation when working with challenging situations.

When a mentor's caseload becomes unmanageable, the BEST course of action is to:

Answer: Communicate with their supervisor to discuss workload management and prioritization

Communicating with a supervisor about unmanageable caseloads is both an ethical responsibility and a self-care strategy that protects clients and the mentor.

Peer support for recovery mentors — such as connecting with other CRMs — is beneficial because:

Answer: It reduces isolation and provides a shared community of practice for processing challenges

Peer connection among mentors builds professional community, reduces isolation, and creates informal opportunities to process and learn from shared experiences.

A CRM should recognize that their role involves:

Answer: Walking alongside a client while supporting their own agency and decision-making in recovery

Effective mentorship empowers clients to develop their own agency and problem-solving capacity rather than fostering dependency on the mentor.

Setting limits on after-hours client contact is an example of:

Answer: Maintaining professional boundaries that protect the mentor and sustain the quality of the relationship

Clear limits on availability protect the mentor from burnout and model healthy boundaries — a recovery value itself — for the client.