Can't Touch This
Personal space - an area surrounding the body; approximately 1.5 to 3 feet in range, that is considered an extension of self.
What is proxemics?
The vocal part of speech, excluding the actual words one uses.
What is paraverbal communication?
A verbal intervention technique in which a person is offered choices and consequences.
What is limit setting?
The ability to stay in control of one's own behaviour and not take behaviours of others personally.
What is rational detachment?
The use of physical intervention to gain a release from any holding situation while minimizing risk of pain or injury during situations in which the behaviour has been assessed as a lower, medium, or higher risk to self or others.
What is disengagement?
The nonverbal behaviour that communicates messages to others via body position, posture, and movement.
What is kinesics?
Tom Selleck demonstrates the importance of paraverbal communication in this video clip: Three Men and a Baby
Other components of paraverbal communication include: _________ and ___________
What are volume and cadence?
The chance that an event or behaviour may occur.
What is likelihood?
Increased speed and strength, increased sensory acuity and decreased reaction time are all considered ___________ reactions to fear and anxiety.
What is productive?
A situation in which another person maintains physical contact without consent and there is the intentional or unintentional risk of harm to part of one's body.
What is a grab/hold?
Communication through touch; a form of nonverbal communication.
What is haptics?
The rate or rhythm of speech.
What is cadence?
The severity of harm in the event the behaviour does occur.
What is outcome?
The inability to react to a situation.
What is freeze?
A weapon (body part or object) making contact with a target.
What is a strike?
The suggested body position for a staff member to maintain when intervening with a potentially dysregulated individual. The ___ ______ is maintained by keeping a distance of one leg-length from the person and by remaining at an angle.
What is supportive stance?
Learning about the four levels of the Crisis Development Model allows us to: intervene early and appropriately, avoid overreacting or underreacting, and _______ __________.
What is avert crises?
Limits should be clear, simple, reasonable, and ________.
What is enforceable?
Perceiving a situation as worse than it really is OR motor skills which do not function normally.
What is overreact?
Combining momentum (energy & speed) with movement (rotation) around a single point (elbow, shoulder, hips) creates a linear and angular motion.
What is a lever?
The supportive stance is used with all clients because it: maintains safety, is non-threatening, and _________ _________.
What is communicates respect?
An active process to discern what a person is saying.
What is empathic listening?
Name this limit setting approach:
"John, you are yelling, please speak quietly".
What is interrupt and redirect?
Factors that influence behaviour.
What are precipitating factors?
Understanding how the body moves (joints and muscles) in order to limit or restrict movement while minimizing injury or harm.
What is biomechanical benefit?