Ch 1
History, Strengths and limitations, Cultural, racial, gender, etc.
What are factors that impact behavior?
Can be used when it is necessary to approach a person who has the potential for impulsive or unpredictable aggression.
What is elbow check?
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A behavior that a person exhibits before more serious behaviors
What is a precursor/signal?
A temporary method for protecting yourself or someone else from an aggressor
What is shoulder check?
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Anchor, push in, pull out
What is bite release?
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When a consequence strengthens the behavior that it follows. Whatever is reinforced will happen more often in the future.
What is reinforcement?
Manage your own emotional reactions.
Provide 2–3 acceptable choices.
"Pick your battles"
Change the request you are making.
Give the person more time.
Offer help.
Change staff.
What are strategies to avoid a power struggle?
A way to approach a person when we are concerned about the potential for agitation or aggression and want to maximize safety, create a therapeutic approach, and avoid provocation.
What is Safety-Stance?
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Turn, Anchor, Pull, Shuffle
What is wrist release?
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Stabilize, Get an airway, Move away from the midline, Maintain balance, Maintain distance
What is a safe position during a complex grab?
1. Create a positive, enriched, and supportive physical and social environment.
2. Teach functional alternatives to challenging behavior.
3. Prevent behavioral crises whenever possible.
4. Manage behavioral crises safely and therapeutically.
5. Minimize the intensity and duration of behavioral crises.
6. Decrease the future likelihood of behavioral crises.
What are the goals of Safety-Care?
Immediate, Distinct, Descriptive, Preferred, Varied
What are the characteristics of effective reinforcement?
Maintain the safety of the agitated person and everyone else.
Avoid making the situation any worse or making the person any more agitated.
Help the person to decrease the intensity of crisis behaviors.
Avoid reinforcing crisis behaviors, so they do not become more likely in the future.
What are the goals of deescalation?
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C Under
C Over
See ya later!
What is stripping a grab?
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The period from when the incident is essentially over to when the person is behaving according to their baseline behavior pattern. There is an increased risk of re-escalation.
What is recovery?
When staff reinforce challenging behavior, because in the short run it gets the challenging behavior to stop.
What is the behavioral trap?
Procedure to help replace challenging behavior with more desirable behavior
What is Differential Reinforcement?
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A way to use the person’s own momentum to change the direction or movement
What is supportive guide?
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The 5 P's: Please help, plunge, pocket, push, protective shuffle
What is front hair pull release?
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Critical for all involved staff and supervisors in order to prevent and minimize future incidents
What is staff debriefing?
Behaviors that interfere with learning and functioning, but have no potential for harm
What are Disruptive Behaviors?
Staff who are friendly, helpful, and respectful.
Access to meaningful choices about what to do and who to do it with.
Access to preferred friends and family.
Meaningful learning and work opportunities.
Minimal coercion.
Frequent reinforcement of desirable behavior.
What is a componenent of a supportive social environment?
An event that happens before the behavior we are concerned about
What is an antecedent/trigger?
Provides a way to safely move away if the person engages in dangerous behavior directed toward you.
What is protective shuffle?
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Chicken wings and rainbows
What is front choke release?
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