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Steps of Positioning in IPC
1. Distancing
2. Facing the inmate
3. Looking directly
Identify strategies to counter implicit biases
Guarding against its influence in decision making
Recognize that everyone has biases and think critically about your own potential biases
Seek greater awareness and more education to increase motivation to be fair
Differentiate the types of racism
Individual racism- Internalizes, unexpressed biases and prejudices based on race
Interpersonal racism- occurs between individuals
Institutional racism- race based discriminatory policies and treatment that are produced by institutions l
Structural racism- refers to the collect way history, culture, and institutions reinforces and perpetuates racialized outcomes
The Add Ons of the IPC Model
Respond to Inmates
Ask questions
Distinguish the EAR model’s three phases of a crisis encounter
Engage
Assess
Respond
What are The Basics of the IPC model
Position
Posture
Observe
Listen
Race is a modern concept used to classify people by similar, observable, physical characteristics
It is not, as many people think, based on genetics
Describe the difference between tradition encounters and a special populations encounter involving an inmate
-The increased need to be non-confrontational
-Special populations encounters frequently benefit from a change in response to one in which de-escalation is the foundation
Differentiate the two modes of thinking
Automatic (System 1)- Unconscious, effortless, automatic, uses associative memory
Deliberative thinking (System 2)- conscious, effortful, automatic
Practical Purpose- simplifies tasks which most adults can do without having to think about each step
Steps of Posturing in IPC
2. Eliminating distracting behaviors
3. Inclining slightly forward
Explain explicit and implicit biases
explicit bias- conscious preference for a social category
implicit bias- preference for a social category based on stereotypes of attitudes that we hold and tend to develop early in life & that operate outside of our awareness
Describe the responsibilities of a corrections officer
Care of Inmates
Custody of Inmates
Control of Inmates
Steps of Asking questions in IPC
1. Use the 5 W’s and H method
2. Thinking about what was said or not said
3. Responding to the answer
Factors that coupled with mental illness produce the greatest increase in the potential for violence.
History of violence, substance abuse and dependence, personality disorders, psychotic thoughts, young make, under social stress, early exposure to violence.
The Applications of the IPC Model
Handle Requests
Make Requests
Reinforce
Describe the warning signs of an inmate contemplating suicide
Inmates who are considering suicide may display the observable characteristics consistent with the loss of hope model
-Wanting to kill oneself
-Looking for a way to kill oneself, writing goodbye notes, giving away possessions
-Mood and interactions like displaying extreme mood swings
-Evidence that the inmate is experienced hallucinations or delusions
Steps of Observing in the IPC model
2. Drawing inferences
3. Deciding normal or abnormal
4. Deciding trouble/no trouble
What are the steps of Responding to Inmates in IPC
1. Identifying Content
2. Identifying Feeling
3. Identifying Meaning
Describe the lethality assessment to determine an inmates suicidal intent
Using the LAST model
Lethality
Availability
Specificity
Timing
Describe the difference between apathy, sympathy and empathy
Apathy- lack of feeling, emotion, and indifference
Sympathy- You care about and are sorry about someone else’s trouble.
Empathy- You understand and share another persons emotions.
Explain how to avoid manipulation by inmates
You can’t avoid it, but can prevent it.
-Use universal precautions
-Use CHUMPS (Controlling, Helping, Understanding, Maintaining, Practicing, Stopping)
Steps for Reinforcing Behavior in IPC
1. Reinforcing positively and negatively
2. Using verbal and non-verbal techniques
Identify the characteristics of a crisis state.
-An episode of mental or emotional upheaval or distress that created instability or danger and cause behavior that is considered disruptive.
Use the Loss Model to recognize the nature of a persons crisis
Loss of reality
Loss of hope
Loss of control
Loss of perspective
1. Check things out
2. Give response and reason