Pro-ACT Basics
According to Pro-ACT, this 'constitutional right' helps to remind us of the difference between irritating behavior and dangerous behavior.
What is being obnoxious?
Each chapter represents one or more of these.
What are Pro-ACT principles?
What is a self-control plan?
According to Pro-ACT, youth are escalating when they move away from this.
What is baseline?
acceptable answers: comfort zone, resiliency zone, window of tolerance
identifying these make it easier to avoid escalation, as well as responding better to it.
What are triggers?
Professionals take ownership of these three things.
What are attitude, mood, and motivation.
A two-word summary of our purpose, not just for Pro-ACT, but for the organization as well.
What is "meeting needs"?
your choices regarding this should take into consideration what will provide ease of movement and have a neutral impact on our youth's behavior.
What is attire?
These are the 5 phases of the assault cycle.
What are triggering event, escalation, assault crisis, recovery, and post-crisis depression?
the four guiding principles in seeking alternatives which interrupt the assault cycle.
What are communication, development, environment, and basic needs?
The founder of Pro-ACT.
Daily Double: a member of a 'Religious Society of Friends", who rejects ALL forms of violence. The Pro-ACT founder was one of these.
Who is Paul A. Smith?
What is a Quaker?
Staff must weigh these things on a daily basis, since they are always present in the field we have chosen to work in.
What are risks.
This is the Pro-ACT principles which is most similar to the ARC building block of Attunement.
What is Observation?
As the body goes into 'human danger response' mode, this lowers.
What is cognition?
acceptable answer: ability to think critically
an environmental condition being impacted when staff call out.
What is scheduling?
The main, or 'primary', question that Pro-ACT addresses.
What is 'what happens when the primary plan isn't working'?
Acceptable alternate answer: Is the behavior dangerous?
Every beginning standard begins with this phrase.
What is "with regular coaching"?
This principle refers to knowing the case history of our youth and making decisions with these experiences in mind.
What is Precautions?
What is aggression toward a person?
a form of communication in which staff may blame others or give in to youth demands easily.
What is passive?
Our primary plan here at Aspiranet's STRTP.
What is ARC?
While it can be triggering for caregivers, Pro-ACT teaches us that this common behavior (or lack thereof) is NOT a symptom, and in most cases is not dangerous either.
What is non-compliance?
It's okay to be bad at controlling the behaviors of youth, so long as you are an expert at this.
What is maintaining self-control?
acceptable answers: self-regulating, controlling your own behaviors, being accountable to your own actions, etc...
Once youth begin moving through the assault cycle, this is our main goal.
What is 'to interrupt' the cycle?
acceptable answer: returning youth to baseline, coregulate youth
the two developmental stages we primarily see our youth regressing to during escalation.
What are early development and school-age?