TBRI 101
TBRI is based on 3 Principles.
What is Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting?
The two strategies in Connecting include Engagement Strategies and Mindfulness Strategies. Mindfulness means I do this.
Become aware of how my own history influences how I parent/relate to others.
Attending to these physiological strategies can have a profound impact on behavior and a youth's ability to maintain self-regulation.
What is hydration and nutrition?
"Gentle & Kind" and "Respect vs No Respect" are two examples of these proactive strategies to teach youth appropriate behavior.
What are Scripts?
"Gentle & Kind" and "Respect vs No Respect" are two examples of these proactive strategies to teach youth appropriate behavior.
What are Scripts?
During the first year of life, this interaction with early caregivers sets the stage for the development of personal and interpersonal skills.
What is Attachment?
When interacting with and connecting with a youth, adults should do this to increase felt safety and help the youth feel more at ease.
What is "Getting on their level"?
We have five senses, touch, taste, smell, auditory and visual. We also have 3 internal senses.
What is vestibular, proprioceptive, and tactile?
If a youth presents a low-level behavioral challenge, this strategy should be used first to get behavior back on track.
What is Playful Engagement?
Allowing youth to practice making choices and doing compromises helps them develop these skills.
What are decision-making skills?
The ability to give care, receive care, negotiate our needs & be autonomous are characteristics of this Attachment style.
What is Secure Attachment?
In order to build trust with youth and give them some control in their life, caregivers can use these two tools.
What are Choices and Compromises?
What is fight, flight, or freeze?
When Playful engagement is not enough to get behavior back on track, caregivers may then want to move to this Level II response, Structured Engagement, using either of these two tools.
What are Choices and Compromises?
Engaging youth through play and participating in activities where they take turns with other youth, play on teams or work collaboratively to achieve an outcome is a good way to teach this skill set.
What are social skills?
Youth can only begin to heal when they develop this with their caregivers.
What is Felt Safety?
These five engagement strategies are part of the Connecting Principles.
What is Healthy Touch, Behavioral Matching, Eye Contact, Voice Quality, & Playful Engagement?
Setting timers, and giving reminders before moving from one activity to the next can make these times easier for youth to manage without behavioral meltdowns.
What are Transitions?
When Level 1 Playful Engagement and Level II Structured Engagement strategies are not enough to bring behaviors back in line, caregivers may need to help youth utilize self-regulation strategies that are part of this level of response.
What is Calming Engagement?
Taking a walk, swinging on a swing, practicing deep breathing, listening to music, doing wall pushes, chair sit-ups or dancing and drumming are all examples of activities that help us regain calm.
What are self-regulating activities?
Because trauma interrupts healthy development, some youth may act this much younger than their chronological age.
What is half their chronological age?
When youth are not able to get their needs met by caring attuned adults, they may resort to behaviors like lying, stealing, and aggression to get their needs met. These behaviors have a special name.
What are survival behaviors?
Youth who struggle with knowing how much force they have behind their touch, how loud their voice may be, or have a need to touch or taste everything in their environment may have this challenge.
What is Sensory Processing Disorder?
If a youth becomes aggressive and is a danger to themselves or others, NYAP caregivers should employ this Level 4 Responsive Strategy to deal with the situation.
What is CPI training?
When adults begin to see behavioral breakdown in youth, there are three questions they should first ask themselves or the youth and respond to accordingly to avoid a behavioral meltdown.
Is my youth hungry, thirsty, or tired?