Behavior Support Techniques
The Behavior Support Technique that may involve turning off the lights
Managing the environment
What is the objective of crisis co-regulation?
To provide support in a way that reduces stress and risk and increases the student's sense of safety.
What are the 3 goals of emotional first aid?
1) Provide support to decrease emotional intensity
2) Identify and resolve the concerns
3) Keep the student in the environment.
What to think about/ do when engaged in a power struggle?
Drop the rope
What is the goal of physical intervention?
Safety! (to reduce risk)
What does attunement refer to?
Being "in tune" with a someone's feelings or needs
Listening to what someone is saying without thinking about your response
What are the 8 Behavior Support Techniques?
-Managing the environment
-Prompting
-Caring gesture
-Hurdle help
-Redirection and distraction
-Proximity
-Directive statement
-Time away
What should you ask yourself before walking into a crisis situation?
Ask yourself the 4 questions
- How am I feeling?
- What does the student feel, need, expect, or want?
- What in the environment is affecting the situation?- Howdo I best respond?
What do staff need to model while providing emotional first aid?
A calm presence
Active listening
Self-regulation
What is the effect of anger?
-“When we are at our angriest, we are at our stupidest.”
-Cognition is low
What is acute physical behavior?
Behavior likely to result in physical injury.
Name the 5 spaces of a Caring and Responsive Classroom.
SPICE
-Social
-Physical
-Ideological
-Cultural
-Emotional
When should touch be avoided?
-When there is no relationship
-When a student states that they do not like touch
-When a student has a history of not preferring touch
-When a student is angry
-When the student has trauma history related to touching
What are the non-verbal crisis co-regulation strategies?
-Taking a deep breath and slowly exhaling
-Giving the student space and time
-Use Silence
-If safe, step away from the student's sight
-Assume a neutral stance and concerned facial expession
Once the student is re-engaged, the staff member should remain in the environment and be a ______.
Coach
Where on the stress model of crisis does avoiding a power struggle fall?
-Baseline
-Triggering Event
-Escalation
anytime before outburst
What are the 4 criteria that should be met to utilize physical restraint in the TCIS System?
1. District and State Policy allows it
2. The student's crisis plan prescribes it.
3. Our dynamic risk assessment indicates it.
4. There is a school framework in place to review restraints.
What are the 3 parts of the triune brain?
1. Emotional Brain
2. Thinking Brain
3. Survival Brain
When is it not appropriate to use time away?
When the child does not know how to self-soothe/ self-regulate.
"You are very angry. Let's come over here so you can tell me what's happening." This is an example of:
Active listening
Reflective response
What are 2 situations in which you would need to use emotional first aid?
Examples:
-state testing
-fieldtrip
-job site
What are 2 ways to avoid or end a power struggle?
-Listening and validating feelings
-Managing the environment
-Giving choices and time to decide what to do next
-Dropping or changing the expectation
Physical Restraint is NOT used to:
Demonstrate authority
Enforce compliance
Inflict pain or harm
Punish or discipline.
Overreaction to situations, trauma re-enactment, Defiance and withdrawal are examples of:
Pain-based behaviors
What are the criteria for using a directive statement?
1) Child has a relationship with you
2) The expectation is important enough to risk escalation.
3) Student has ability to meet expectation.
4) Student is still in control enough to hear and understand statement.
5) Request is made respectfully and calmly.
"I'm here for you, no matter what. It sounds like you did everything you could. I know how you feel. That must have been really tough for you."
These are examples of what kind of responses?
Empathetic Statement- Affirming and Validating the student's feelings
While providing emotional first aid, we need to make sure we recognize what?
The student's efforts and success.
What is an amygdala hijack?
Anger or fear triggers a fight, flight, or freeze response (an emotional and physical state)
The amygdala sends a danger message straight to the survival brain (objectivity is undermined)
What are the 4 components of the letting go process?
- States what is expected of the student
- Is directed by the team leader
- Is supportive of the student
- Sets the tone for the recovery phase
What are the steps of the LSI in order?
-Identify a place and time to talk
-Explore student's point of view
-Summarize the feelings and content
-Connected the TRIGGER to FEELINGS to BEHAVIOR
-Alternative response to the feelings discussed
-Plan developed and practiced
-Enter student back into the routine