Crisis Development Model
Decision Making
Communication Skills
Defensive Behaviors
Miscellaneous
100

This is how staff should approach a person if they are showing Tension Reduction.

What is therapeutic rapport.

100
This is the chance of a bad consequence. 

What is Risk. 

100

These are the words you use to send messages.

What is verbal communication. 

100

These are the 5 parts of the verbal escalation continuum. 

What is questioning, refusal, release, intimidation, and tension reduction. 
100

This is knowing how to remain professional by managing your own behavior and attitude. 

What is rational detachment.

200

This stage is a noticeable change in behavior, and could be confused with Tension Reduction. 

What is Anxiety.

200

These are the two pieces when assessing risk. 

What is likelihood and severity.

200

This is your tone, volume, and rhythm of speech.

What is paraverbal. 

200

When we set limits, we should make them this. 

What is respectful, simple, and reasonable. 

200

These are factors that influence another person's behavior.

What are precipitating factors.

300

These are the 4 levels of behavior an acting out individual could display. 

What is anxiety, Defensive, Risk Behavior, and Tension Reduction

300

These are some factors that impact a person when assessing risk behavior. 

What is fear, past experiences, and anxiety.

300

This is how you communicate your personal space, body language, communication through touch, and listening with empathy. 

What is nonverbal communication.

300

This is how we respond to someone that is screaming, swearing, or yelling. 

What is allowing the them to vent, remove the audience or person (if possible), give directives and use understanding. 

300

These are the components of the model we use in the Therapeutic Rapport Approach for students and staff involved in a crisis behavior. 

What is the Coping Modeling: control, orient, patterns, investigate, negotiate, and give. 

400
This is how a staff member should be direct? 
What is providing clear direction and instruction. 
400

These are the 3 levels of assessing risk.

What is low, medium, and high risk. 
400

These are the reasons why we use the supportive stance. 

What is communicates respect, appears nonthreatening, and maximizes safety. 

400

These are the two types of questioning. 

What is information seeking and challenging. 

400

This is a key concept that tells us our behavior influences another person's behavior. 

What is the integrated experience. 

500

Behavior is this.

What is communication.

500

When assessing the use of a restrictive intervention, we should always consider it to be this. 

What is the last resort. 

500

These are factors that impact our nonverbal communication. 

What are social and cultural factors, words/gestures, age, gender identify, relationships, cognitive abilities, and individual thoughts/feelings/needs/ and wants. 

500
This is how we demonstrate to others consistency with communication. 

What is listen to understand, allow time, reman flexible, make it private, and don't get into power struggles. 

500

These are the reasons we would use a restrictive intervention on an individual with an acting out behavior. 

As a last resort: immediate or imminent harm to themselves or others. 

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