General Knowledge
Critical Understanding
Scope of Certification
Non-Physical Intervention
A Little More Info
100

The name of the association that provides this crisis management training and certification.

What is PCMA?

100

How does PCMA define crisis.

What is CASH?

100

Practitioners only use the procedures needed to stop crisis, that is, nothing more ____ than necessary.

What is restrictive?

100

Reinforcing any improvement in behavior in a brief and casual manner helps minimize the accidental ___ of pre-crisis behaviors.

What is "reinforcement"?

100

Practitioners must perform PCM procedures as taught. Practitioners MUST NOT ___ any PCM procedure.

What is "modify"?

200

There must be a breakdown or imminent breakdown of ___ for the use of vertical immobilization.

What is "transportation"?

200

For each level on the Cycle of Crisis, there are four strategies for staff to use.

Stable functioning- ___ strategies

Pre-crisis - ___ strategies

Crisis - ___ intervention procedures 

Post-crisis - ___ strategies

What is:

Prevention 

De-escalation

Crisis 

Reintegration 

200

The PCM system strives to protect an individual's ___ during all phases of the Cycle of Crisis.

What is "dignity"?
200

For individuals who are motivated to escape from tasks, staff should try to minimize the delay between the crisis behavior and the ____.

What is "return to task"?

200

Behavior and physiology change in ___ ways when moving through the cycle of crisis.

What is "predictable"?

300

Staff can increase their proximity by moving closer in an non-threatening way and avoiding __.

What is "eye contact"?

300

The criteria for Transportation require the same conditions as crisis:

Continuous ________

Continuous _________

Continuous High Magnitude _______

What is:

Aggression

Self Injury

Disruption 

300

PCM Horizontal immobilizations require at least ___ staff for prone and at least __ staff for supine.

What is "2 and 3"?

300

If individuals are seeking __ and staff decide to ignore their behavior, a temporary ___ in problem behavior called an extinction burst can occur.

What is "attention and increase"?

300

Transportation could possibly ___ crisis behavior by removing the individual from a place/situation that they dislike.

What is "reinforce"?

400

De-escalation strategies are used the moment behavior moves from stable functioning to ___.

What is "Pre-crisis"?

400

The criteria for horizontal immobilization are:

___ or a breakdown or imminent breakdown of imminent breakdown of transportation or vertical immobilization.

Staff must always use a ___ ___.

Can only be done by practitioners who are at least level ___ or Instructors of the same level.

What is "CASH, safety mat, P2"?

400

PCM transportation procedures include the automatic use of behavioral ___ and ___ principles, referred to as Dynamic Holding.

What is "shaping and fading"?

400

Once at Post-Crisis Level 1, the individual should quickly be re-engaged in ___ behaviors and possibly contrived tasks.

What is "high probability"?

400

If the individual refuses or seems uninterested in ___ it may mean that they need more time to become stable.

What is "reinforcers"?

500

Prevention is used to increase on-task or "engaged" behaviors which are ___ with crisis behavior.

What is "incompatible"?

500

In the ___ BARR, during the grips prompt, the individual's palms should be facing up. In the ___ BARR, during the grips prompt, the individual's palms should be facing down.

What is prone and supine?

500

Level P is a minimum of __ hours, P1 is __ hours and P2P, P2S, P2PS are __ hours.

What is:

14, 16, and 22

500
When managing tasks and activities in Post-crisis Level 2: at first, tasks should be familiar to the individual, but avoid using ___ tasks.

What is "preferred"?

500

During Post-Crisis Level 2, staff must look out for and stop any ___ behaviors as the individual returns to tasks or activities.

What is "pre crisis"?

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