Pro-ACT Basics
Key Concepts
Preparation
The Assault Cycle
Triggers and Alternatives
100

According to Pro-ACT, this 'constitutional right' helps to remind us of the difference between irritating behavior and dangerous behavior.

What is being obnoxious?

100

Each chapter represents one or more of these.

What are Pro-ACT principles?

100
a plan which includes breathing, self-talk, and grounding and can be done while maintaining supervision and engagement with youth.

What is a self-control plan?

100

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

100

identifying these make it easier to avoid escalation, as well as responding better to it.

What are triggers?

200

Professionals take ownership of these three things.

What are attitude, mood, and motivation.

200

A two-word summary of our purpose, not just for Pro-ACT, but for the organization as well.

What is "meeting needs"?

200

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?

200

These are the 5 phases of the assault cycle.

What are triggering event, escalation, assault crisis, recovery, and post-crisis depression?

200

the four guiding principles in seeking alternatives which interrupt the assault cycle.

What are communication, development, environment, and basic needs?

300

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?

300

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.

300

This is the Pro-ACT principles which is most similar to the ARC building block of Attunement.

What is Observation?

300

As the body goes into 'human danger response' mode, this lowers.

What is cognition?

acceptable answer: ability to think critically

300

an environmental condition being impacted when staff call out.

What is scheduling?

400

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?

400

Every beginning standard begins with this phrase.

What is "with regular coaching"?

400

This principle refers to knowing the case history of our youth and making decisions with these experiences in mind.

What is Precautions?

400
This is how we know youth have moved from escalation to assault.

What is aggression toward a person?

400

a form of communication in which staff may blame others or give in to youth demands easily.

What is passive?

500

Our primary plan here at Aspiranet's STRTP.

What is ARC?

500

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?

500

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...

500

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

500

the two developmental stages we primarily see our youth regressing to during escalation.

What are early development and school-age?

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