Precipitating Factors
These are underlying causes or reasons for a person's distress behavior.
What are Precipitating Factors?
This is the ability to stay in control of your own behavior and not take acting-out behavior personally.
What is Rational Detachment?
All behavior is a form of this.
What is communication?
One way to strengthen rational detachment is to start your day in this way.
What is a mindful way?
This is the name of Module 3 and the concept that staff and individual behaviors influence each other.
What is the Integrated Experience?
This type of precipitating factor is the result of a recent event, such as waking up late.
What is a Temporary Factor?
One reason this is difficult is because a person's defensive behavior may appear to be doing this to you.
What is targeting you?
This strategy involves choosing words carefully, being concise, and avoiding judgment.
What is "Think, then say"?
To maintain resilience, staff are encouraged to practice this in physical, social, and mental categories.
What is self-care?
n an escalating situation, a staff member should do this before reacting to an individual's behavior.
What is observe and consider (or rationally detach)?
This type of factor is something a person has been living with for a long time, such as complex trauma.
What is a Persistent (or Long-term) Factor?
Rational detachment is essential because continuing to engage when you are struggling to detach can lead to this outcome.
What is escalating the situation?
This technique involves focusing on the physical world, such as pressing your heels into the ground, to regulate emotions.
What is grounding?
Staff should avoid these types of activities at work because they lessen the ability to rationally detach.
What are activities that cause stress (or disrupt mindfulness)?
This is the primary goal of using rational detachment and understanding precipitating factors.
What is de-escalation (or a professional response)?
Staff can use their knowledge of these factors to do this to their response to a person in distress.
What is influence (or change) their approach?
When behavior feels personal, staff should remember that in most cases, they just happen to be this.
What is the person in front of them?
Staff should use this strategy when they recognize their own precipitating factors are making it too hard to detach.
What is "Ask for help" (or stepping away)?
Being mindful of your own factors allows you to try not to let them do this to your response.
What is affect (or influence) it?
This "brain" is said to be in control when a person is exhibiting defensive or risk behaviors
What is the emotional brain?
While staff cannot always control a person's precipitating factors, they must be aware of how their own factors affect this.
What is their interaction with others (at work)?
This practice helps prevent personal emotions, past experiences, and implicit bias from influencing a staff member's response.
What is objectively observing behavior?
Focusing on some aspect of the physical world rather than your thoughts and feelings in order to help you regulate your emotions is called what.
Grounding or Mindfulness Practice
This proactive behavior involves stepping in when you notice a colleague is struggling to maintain their calm.
What is being proactive (or helping a coworker)?
This is what staff are looking for when they try to identify a precipitating factor.
What is an underlying cause or reason for the behavior?