Understanding Behavior
What types of behaviors do we address during safety care?
desirable behaviors and challenging behaviors
What does ABC stand for?
antecedent, behavior, consequence
_____ is a training program for staff working with children, adolescents, or adults who may exhibit challenging or dangerous behavior.
Safety care
What does the safety care curriculum comply with?
laws and regulations
How should we manage behavioral crises?
safely and therapeutically
Desirable behaviors are those we would like to _____ and __________.
Teach and encourage
What can be used to strengthen a desirable behavior?
reinforcement
How long does the Safety Care specialist certification last?
1 year
with respect and dignity
What type of environment does Safety Care aim to create?
positive, supportive, and enriched physical and social environment
Challenging behaviors are those that are _________ or the ________ with learning and functioning.
Why do challenging behaviors often happen?
Because they have been reinforced.
FALSE: only Safety Care trainers are allowed to teach the course.
What kind of approach is safety care designed to be?
interdisciplinary
What does Safety Care aim to MINIMIZE?
What are the three levels of severity that challenging behaviors are divided into?
Disruptive behaviors, dangerous behaviors, and very dangerous (potentially lethal) behaviors.
When we find ourselves reinforcing challenging behavior to try to get it to stop quickly is called what?
Behavior trap
How should the class act towards everyone else?
Respectful and cooperative
In this curriculum, what can override legal or regulatory requirements?
NOTHING
What does Safety Care aim to teach?
Functional alternatives to challenging behavior
Name at least 3 factors that can help someone understand someone's behavior.
development and lifespan, conditions and diagnoses, traumatic events, social factors, stengths and limitations
Social reinforcers, activity reinforcers, and physical/tangible reinforcers.
Provide 2 example of being communicative during this course.
Ask questions, actively engage, disclose any physical issues that may be relative or previous injuries, report to the trainer if there is something you cannot do safely, and reveal if you ever experience any pain during physical practice.
What type of interventions does this curriculum teach?
Least restrictive
What does Safety Care aim to DECREASE?
the future likelihood of behavioral crises