Development Model
Integrated Experience
Communication Skills
Responding to Defensive Behaviors
Safety Interventions
100

When an individual is demonstrating behaviors such as kicking and biting, they are displaying

Risk Behavior

100

The Integrated Experience means that:

Behavior influences behavior

100

Personal space is:

The distance people prefer to maintain between themselves and others.

100

True or False

Planning and practicing your preferred verbal responses is important when intervening with a person demonstrating Refusal.

True

100

What are some essential safety strategies for you to consider in your approach to safety interventions?

Remain calm and call for help.

200

An individual is looking at the clock and pacing back and forth. What behavior level is the person exhibiting?

Anxiety

200

Precipitating Factors is a concept that refers to:

The underlying reasons for behavior

200

Body language is:

The postures, gestures, facial expressions, and movement used to communicate.

200

Limits should be respectful, simple, and ______.

Reasonable

200

True or False

In the event of a crisis, it’s important to remove the person or relocate bystanders from the environment.

True

300

How would you respond to help an individual who is saying “no” and refusing to perform a task?

Provide choices with consequences.

300

How would you describe Rational Detachment?

Maintaining your professionalism by not taking it personally

300

Communication through touch is:

A form of physical contact that expresses feelings or emotion.

300

“Would you like to talk about this now or later?” is an example of which type of limit setting?

Fail Safe Choice

300

True or False

When intervening with a person demonstrating Risk Behavior, non-restrictive interventions are the first resort.

True

400

How do you know someone has reached the Tension Reduction stage?

Crying, Apologizing, Fear, Relaxing, Sleeping

400

Why is it important to understand underlying or "precipitating" factors?

Help to manage our response and understand why behavior is occurring.

400

Listening with empathy is:

A way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding and trust.

400

How do you identify someone in the "Release" phase of the continuum?

Verbal and emotional outbursts

400

True or False

The use of restrictive interventions for Risk Behavior should only be considered as a last resort.

True

500

How would you approach a student displaying Risk Behavior

Safety Interventions

500

How can we maintain Rational Detachment? Give examples of how you might do so in an escalated situation.

Various correct responses.

500

Which is a nonverbal, supportive response to a person in distress?

Respecting personal space

500

When a student is verbally and/or nonverbally threatening a staff member you should,

Take all threats seriously, seek assistance

500

Restrictive interventions should be reasonable, proportionate, and __________.


Least restrictive 

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