Together Now
Anything that makes challenging behavior more or less likely to occur.
What is Setting Conditions?
Silence, Nods, Facial Expression, Eye Contact
What are Non Verbal Techniques?
Affects how children think, feel, and behave.
What is Trauma?
Is used to give students a little help through the first few steps of a task or to get over a stumbling block.
What is Hurdle Help?
1st Step in Skill Building for Co-Regulation Strategies.
What is Self Awareness (4 Questions)?
This model is used to measure an individuals level of crisis.
What is a Stress Model of Crisis?
All behavior has meaning, Behavior reflects needs, and Trauma affects how students behave.
What is Assessing Behavior?
Trauma can cause, but is not limited to, 1 of 4 problems.
What is:
- Problems with self-regulation
- Aggression and impulsive outbursts
- Inability to tolerate uncertainty and ambiguity
- Trauma re-enactments or flashbacks
Signals the student(s) to either begin a desired behavior or to stop an inappropriate action.
Prompting
2nd Step in Skill Building for Co-Regulation Strategies.
What is Active Listening & Crisis Communication?
“When we are at our angriest, we are at our stupidest.”
What are the Effects of Anger?
Drain off emotions, Clarify events, Maintain the relationship and lines of communication, and Remind the student of expectations and mediate the situation if necessary
What are Strategies for Emotional First Aid?
Understanding cultural and ethnic differences and each other’s worldview, Demonstrating self-regulation skills, Knowing personal triggers, & Being aware of personal goals, values, beliefs.
What is Emotional Competence?
The use of nearness.
What is Proximity?
3rd Step in Skill Building for Co-Regulation Strategies.
What is Behavioral Support Techniques?
Provide immediate help and support to reduce emotional intensity (co-regulation), Resolve the immediate crisis, Keep the student in the activity
What are the Goals of Emotional First Aid?
4 Questions we ask ourselves in a crisis situation (in order).
1. What am I feeling now?
2. What does this student feel, need, or want?
3. How is the environment affecting the student?
4. How do I best respond?
In TCI we look to provide SUPPORT environmentally and emotionally to reduce stress and risk & TEACH students better ways to cope with stress.
What are the goals of Crisis Intervention?
Are methods of diverting a student or an entire group's energy and attention to a different activity.
What is Redirection & Distraction?
4th Step in Skill Building for Co-Regulation Strategies
What is Emotional First-Aid?
Provides space for students to de-stress, Is clean, orderly, inviting, Has flexibility in providing soft lighting and reasonable calming noise levels, an is clean, orderly, and inviting.
What is a Calming Environment?
A component of providing effective TCIS implementation.
What is:
- Leadership and administrative support
- Social work and clinical services participation
- Supervision and post crisis response
- Training and competency standards
- Data-driven incident monitoring and feedback
This occurs when a student’s inability to cope results in a change in behavior.
What is a Crisis?
Often a good strategy when a student is upset and being stimulated by others or by something in the immediate environment.
What is Time Away?
5th and/or 6th Step in Skill Building for Co-Regulation Strategies
What is:
Crisis Co Regulation
LSI (Life Space Interview)