TCIS System
These are the two goals of TCIS
What are teach and support?
Listening for meaning by using verbal and nonverbal techniques.
What is active listening?
This is the last question of the 4 Questions you ask yourself before entering a crisis situation.
This interaction very often has the potential to turn a stressful situation into a full-blown crisis.
What is a power struggle?
This is the only goal of a physical restraint.
What is to ensure safety?
Baseline, Triggering Event, Escalation, Outburst and Recovery are all stages within this model.
What is the stress model of crisis?
"I can see how excited you are to play Jeopardy!" is an example of this verbal technique.
What is a reflective response or validating feelings?
This is a Behavior Support Technique that can be used for students with good self-regulation skills.
What is time away?
A student who is displaying a high level of emotion and is not in control of their behaviors is displaying this type of aggression.
What is reactive aggression?
This is known as the deprivation of oxygen to living cells.
What is asphyxia?
Anything that increases the chances that a challenging behavior may or may not occur (e.g., organizational culture, environment, etc.)
What are setting conditions?
A student who struggles with self-regulation, aggressive outbursts and/or difficulty with uncertainty and ambiguity may have experienced this.
What is trauma?
You should remove this element in the following scenario:
John is in the cafeteria yelling at Susie. He begins to make threatening statements, while Susie is trying to walk away.
What is the target? (Susie)
This is the minimum number of people that should be present to perform a small child restraint.
What is 2 (or 3 for BOCES protocols)?
In this level of recovery, the staff member intervened to stop the behavior, but the student did not learn a different way to manage or cope.
What is no change or firefighter?
This skill is used pre-crisis, throughout a crisis and after a crisis.
What is active listening?
"When you feel angry, you hit people" is an example of this step in the LSI.
What is connecting feelings to the behavior?
A binder, a book, a ruler, a chair, a desk are examples of this element of a potentially violent situation.
What are weapons?
A student should always be checked out by this person following a physical intervention.
Who is the nurse?
Today's refresher theme was "responding to behavior escalation and crisis" but this was the "hidden theme."
What is songs with names in the title?
or What is emotional competence?
or What is coregulation?
Knowing personal triggers and being aware of personal goals, values and beliefs are examples of this.
What is self-awareness or emotional competence?
Using Crisis Co-Regulation techniques such as taking a deep breath, taking a step back and giving the situation time are examples of what to do when a student is at this level on the Stress Model of Crisis.
What is crisis, outburst, or violence?
In this type of aggression, the behavior happens hours, days, months after the emotional arousal has returned to baseline.
What is proactive aggression?
These are three (3) warning signs that a student is in danger during a restraint.
What is student turns dusky purple, goes limp, vomits, says "I can't breath", stops breathing, etc.