Crisis
It is the only reason to physically intervene with a young person.
What is Safety?
These are types of non-verbal communication that is not necessarily intentional.
What are eye contact, body language, personal space, height and gender?
This is used to allow a child to self regulate/ regain control away from the situation.
What is time away?
They are the three steps involved in Crisis Co-Regulation ("help me help myself").
What to Think
What to Do
What to Say
It is the first thing we do in and LSI.
What is isolate the conversation?
These are the two goals of TCI.
What is "support" and "teach."
They are the 4 questions to ask ourselves in a potential crisis.
What am I feeling? What does the youth feel, need, want? How is the environment affecting the youth? How do I best respond?
It is used to give a youth a little help through the first few steps of a task.
What is hurdle help?
Use of silence, open ended questions, reflective responses are a few examples of this.
What is active listening?
It is the last step in an LSI.
What is enter the youth back into the program.
What are the three potential outcomes of a crisis during the recovery phase?
Higher (Educateur)
No Change (Fire Fighter)
Lower (Abuser)
Aggression that is goal oriented.
What is proactive aggression?
During this technique we allow the child to drain off emotions, and keep them in the current activity.
What is emotional first aid?
This step helps a youth see patterns of their own behavior.
What is connect feelings and behavior?
Trigger, target, weapon, and level of stress or motivation.
What are the 4 elements of a potentially violent situation?
It is aggression that occurs when a youth is emotionally flooded.
What is reactive aggression?
This is used to show a young person that you care. it may be physical, visual, or auditory.
What is caring gesture?
This is the 2nd strategy we learned on the pyramid. It rests on a solid foundation of the first strategies.
What is active listening and crisis communication?
Those are the two P's of an LSI.
What are plan and practice?
It is the only reason to physically intervene with a young person.
What is safety?
Anything that makes a challenging behavior more or less likely to happen.
What is a setting condition.
It a method of diverting a young person's energy and attention to a different activity.
What is redirection and distraction?
It is at the base of the skills building pyramid and the foundation for all of our other skills.
Self-Awareness and The Four Questions.
These are 3 of the 5 goals of an LSI.
return the young person to normal functioning
clarify events
repair and restore relationship
teach new coping skills
reintegrate the young person back into the program