TBRI 101
TBRI is based on 3 Principles.
What is Connecting, Empowering, and Correcting
The Connecting Principles have two strategies.
What are Mindfulness strategies and Engagement strategies?
The Empowering Principles have two strategies.
What are the Physiological Strategies and Ecological strategies?
The Correcting Principles have two strategies.
What are the Proactive Strategies and the Responsive Strategies?
We use these to help teach youth appropriate behavior.
What are Scripts?
In the Empowering Principles, Ecological strategies include discussion about these elements.
What are Transitions, and Self-regulation?
During the first year of life, this sets the stage for the development of personal and interpersonal skills.
What is attachment?
A youth can only begin to heal when they develop this.
What is the Authoritative style?
Giving youth choices and compromises builds trust while helping youth develop these three skills.
What are social skills, negotiation skills, and good decision-making skills?
The ability to give care, receive care, negotiate needs and be autonomous are hallmarks of this attachment style.
What is Secure Attachment?
In TBRI, this term refers to youth who have suffered, neglect, abuse, and other forms of trauma.
What is Children From Hard Places?
Attending to these Physiological Strategies can have a profound impact on behavior and a youth's ability to maintain regulation.
What are Hydration and Blood sugar?
If I am dealing with a Level one behavior, I would employ this method to get the behavior back on track.
What is Playful Engagement?
Life Value terms are short phrases that teach youth valuable social skills. This TBRI life value term teaches youth how to treat animals and other people.
What is Gentle & Kind?
In order to build trust, caregivers are encouraged to share power and restore voice by doing these two things.
What are Choices and Compromises?
These five engagement strategies are part of the Connecting Principles.
What is Healthy Touch, Behavioral Matching, Eye Contact, Voice Quality, and Playful Engagement?
We have 5 senses, touch, taste, smell, hearing, and vision. We also have 3 internal senses.
What is Vestibular, Proprioceptive and Tactile sense?
A child's behavior is not who they are. This letter in the IDEAL response addresses this value.
What is "L" : Leveled at the behavior, not the child?
When we teach youth proactive strategies we need to ensure that these 3 conditions are met.
What are calm, alert, and basic needs met?
We know that trauma changes how the brain wires and impacts development. By implementing TBRI strategies our goal is to do achieve this outcome.
When children experience profound neglect, they learn that their voice does not matter so they turn to these strategies to get their needs met.
What are survival skills?
Too much sensory input or not enough sensory input may cause youth to respond in this manner.
What is Fight, Flight, or Freeze?
When dealing with behavior, if Level 1 is not successful, the caregiver may move to a Level 2 response and employ these two strategies.
What are Choices and Compromises?
What is Playful Engagement?