The Crisis Development Model
Examples of this level on the Crisis Development model include pacing, fidgeting, asking lots of questions, withdrawing, increased or decreased stimming or scripting
What is Anxiety?
How you say, what you say
What is paraverbal communication?
The staff approach you should take when your student is at the defensive level.
Directive
The chance that an event or behavior may occur
What is likelihood?
Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security for all
The values the underpin CPI
In this staff approach, a person is trying to decelerate the behavior.
What is Directive?
The distance people prefer to maintain between themselves and others
What is personal spae?
At this stage on the kite, the student may be seen as unwilling to cooperate or follow instructions.
What is refusal?
The chance of a bad consequence.
What is risk?
Examples of this intervention include:
Interrupt and Redirect
When/Then
If/Then
Fail Safe choies
Limit Setting
What is defensive?
Personal space, body language, and haptics are elements in this type of communication skill.
What is non-verbal?
Your goal for any stage of a crisis is to help the student reach this stage.
What is risk behavior?
Reasons to use this includes communicating respect, appearing non-threatening, and maximizing safety.
What is the supportive stance?
In this level of crisis development, the staff approach may include meeting the students basic needs and offering support and encouragement.
What is tension reduction?
Postures, gestures, facial expressions, and movements used to communicate.
Body language
The intervention of this stage on the verbal escalation continuum include downplaying the challenge, and sticking to the topic.
What is questioning?
The level of harm that may occur.
What is severity?
Sometimes the risk of doing _____ is better than the risk of ____.
Nothing
Intervention
Behavior influences behavior
What is the integrated experience?
It is important to observe these as they can reveal any discomfort or distress a student might feel.
Non-verbal cues
At this stage on the kite, a student may have a verbal and emotional outburst, or a high energy output response.
What is a Release?
A restrictive intervention may be the right decision as long as it is this.
What is the last resort?
According to CPI, all behavior is this.
What is communication?