Baseline
Monitoring your personal level of stress, maintaining a healthy lifestyle and using reflective practice are all examples of this.
What is self-care?
'What does the child feel, need, expect or want?' is one of the questions in this.
What are the four questions we ask ourselves in a crisis situation?
Dropping the rope is the solution to this.
What is a power struggle?
Higher, lower or no change
What are recovery phase outcomes?
Fight, flight or freeze.
What is a stress response to perceived threats?
The part of the brain responsible for breathing, heart-rate and most autonomic bodily functions.
What is the survival brain, brain stem or reptilian brain?
Silence, facial expression, eye-contact and tone of voice are examples.
What are non-verbal techniques?
The spark, the target, the weapon and the level of stress or motivation are all elements of this.
What is a potentially violent situation?
A verbal process that helps turn crisis events into learning experiences
What is a Life Space Interview?
A model showing that a child's behaviours is only a small part of what we see, and the root causes of a child's feelings, needs, memories and thoughts are hidden beneath the surface.
What is the iceberg?
Self-awareness, self-regulation, relationship skills and attunement and self-care fall under this category.
What is intentional use of self?
This response (eg. 'You look upset') connects with the child's FEELINGS
What is a reflective response?
Pressure on the neck or chest, obstructing the mouth or nose and abnormal positioning of the body are examples of this.
What is an improper restraint technique?
'So when someone....you feel...and then you...' is a sentence used at this step.
What is 'Connect trigger to feelings to behaviour'?
Running away, property damage and withdrawal.
What are pain-based behaviours?
Anything that makes challenging behaviour or traumatic stress response more or less likely to occur.
What is a setting condition?
This behaviour support technique should only be used if the child has an ability to self-regulate.
What is time away?
The deprivation of oxygen to living cells
What is asphyxia?
'Let's see if we can make sense of what just happened. Take me back to the beginning...' is used here
What is 'Explore'?
The 'sentry' or 'gate-keeper' in the emotional brain
What is the amygdala?
The combination of people, emotions, attitudes and objects that create a sense of safety, respect, belonging, care and accountability
What is the Therapeutic Milieu?
Providing immediate support, identifying and resolving the underlying concerns and keeping the child in the activity are goals of this.
What is emotional first-aid?
Taking a deep breath, giving the child space and time, using silence, if safe - stepping away from the child's sight, and assuming a neutral stance and concerned facial expression.
What are crisis co-regulation strategies (non-verbal)?
When you feel yourself getting angry, what will help to calm yourself? What has worked for you in the past?' is said in this step.
What is 'Alternative responses to feelings discussed'.
When using this behaviour support technique there is a risk it could escalate the situation
What is a directive statement?