TCI (Therapeutic Crisis Intervention)
Latest Questions and Answers (2026) |
Updated Comprehensive Review with
Detailed Rationales | A+ Verified
• 3 regions of the Triune Brain -✓✓1) Thinking Brain - neo-cortex
2) Emotional Brain - limbic system (amygala)
3) Survival Brain - brain stem
• Outcomes for the recovery phase of the stress model of crisis: -✓✓1) higher
2) lower
3) no change
• Pain Based Behaviors (NAME 5) -✓✓- impulsive outbursts
- withdrawl
- overreaction to situations
- inflexibility
- inability to regulate behaviors
- running away through anger/fear
- self-injury
- defiance
- trauma re-enactment
• 2 Goals of Crisis Intervention -✓✓1) Support - provide immediate emotional and
environmental support to reduce stress and risk, and increase child's sense of safety
(SHORT-TERM).
2) Teach - help children learn and practice ways to regulate their emotions and
behaviors (LONG-TERM).
• Professional Dynamic Risk Assessment -✓✓- What am I feeling now?
- What does this child feel, need, expect, or want?
- How is the environment affecting the situation?
- How do I best respond?
, • Non-verbal techniques -✓✓- silence
- eye contact
- tone of voice
- facial expressions
• Intentional use of self skills - NAME 2 -✓✓1) Self-Awareness
2) Self-Regulation
3) Relationship skills & attunement
4) Self-care
• A trauma-informed organization... (KNOW FULL SENTENCES) -✓✓1) Understands
WHAT trauma is and HOW trauma impacts everyone within the system.
2) Recognize BEHAVIORS & PATTERNS that REFLECT past or present trauma.
3) Respond in ways that AVOID Re-Traumatization.
• Define: Setting Condition -✓✓Anything that makes challenging behavior or traumatic
stress responses MORE or LESS likely to occur.
• Spaces of Therapeutic Milieu -✓✓SPICE:
-Social
-Physical
-Ideological
-Cultural
-Emotional
• Stress model of crisis degrees of stress: -✓✓- Baseline
- Trigger (agitation)
- Escalation (aggression)
- Outburst (violence)
- Recovery
• Behavior Support Techniques -✓✓- managing the environment
- caring gesture
- redirection & distraction
- directive statements
- prompting
- hurdle help
- proximity
- time away
Latest Questions and Answers (2026) |
Updated Comprehensive Review with
Detailed Rationales | A+ Verified
• 3 regions of the Triune Brain -✓✓1) Thinking Brain - neo-cortex
2) Emotional Brain - limbic system (amygala)
3) Survival Brain - brain stem
• Outcomes for the recovery phase of the stress model of crisis: -✓✓1) higher
2) lower
3) no change
• Pain Based Behaviors (NAME 5) -✓✓- impulsive outbursts
- withdrawl
- overreaction to situations
- inflexibility
- inability to regulate behaviors
- running away through anger/fear
- self-injury
- defiance
- trauma re-enactment
• 2 Goals of Crisis Intervention -✓✓1) Support - provide immediate emotional and
environmental support to reduce stress and risk, and increase child's sense of safety
(SHORT-TERM).
2) Teach - help children learn and practice ways to regulate their emotions and
behaviors (LONG-TERM).
• Professional Dynamic Risk Assessment -✓✓- What am I feeling now?
- What does this child feel, need, expect, or want?
- How is the environment affecting the situation?
- How do I best respond?
, • Non-verbal techniques -✓✓- silence
- eye contact
- tone of voice
- facial expressions
• Intentional use of self skills - NAME 2 -✓✓1) Self-Awareness
2) Self-Regulation
3) Relationship skills & attunement
4) Self-care
• A trauma-informed organization... (KNOW FULL SENTENCES) -✓✓1) Understands
WHAT trauma is and HOW trauma impacts everyone within the system.
2) Recognize BEHAVIORS & PATTERNS that REFLECT past or present trauma.
3) Respond in ways that AVOID Re-Traumatization.
• Define: Setting Condition -✓✓Anything that makes challenging behavior or traumatic
stress responses MORE or LESS likely to occur.
• Spaces of Therapeutic Milieu -✓✓SPICE:
-Social
-Physical
-Ideological
-Cultural
-Emotional
• Stress model of crisis degrees of stress: -✓✓- Baseline
- Trigger (agitation)
- Escalation (aggression)
- Outburst (violence)
- Recovery
• Behavior Support Techniques -✓✓- managing the environment
- caring gesture
- redirection & distraction
- directive statements
- prompting
- hurdle help
- proximity
- time away
