Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI).
What is a setting condition?
Anything that makes challenging behavior more or less likely to occur.
Who is part of the organizational culture?
All of us
What are the goals of crisis intervention?
1. Support: Environmentally and emotionally to reduce stress and risk
2. Teach: Children better ways to cope with stress
What is the Stress Model of Crisis?
1. Precrisis State (Baseline)
2. Triggering Event
3. Escalation Phase
4. Outburst Crisis
5. Recovery
What are the 4 questions we ask ourselves in a crisis situation?
1. What am I feeling now?
2. What does this young person feel, need, or want?
3. How is the environment affecting the . young person?
4. How do I best respond?
What are examples of reflective responses?
"You feel uncomfortable when your friends talk about school." or "You are angry about
your visit being canceled. I'd be upset too." (Relating emotion to action)
What is summarization?
"Here is what I hear you saying, you felt food at first, but now..." (Summarizing feelings)
What does active listening do?
Helps young people talk our rather than act out
What is NOT active listening?
It is NOT time consuming
Name some behavior support techniques?
Managing the environment
Prompting
Caring gesture
Hurdle help
Redirection and distractions
Proximity
Directive statements
Time away
Planned ignore
Positive attention
What are the goals of emotional first aid?
1. Provide immediate help and support to reduce emotional intensity (co-regulation)
2. Resolve the immediate crisis
3. Keep the child int he program/activity
Name some strategies for emotional first aid.
What is a setting condition?
Anything that makes challenging behavior more or less likely to occur.
Who is part of the organizational culture?
All of us
What are the goals of crisis intervention?
1. Support: Environmentally and emotionally to reduce stress and risk
2. Teach: Children better ways to cope with stress
What is the Stress Model of Crisis?
1. Precrisis State (Baseline)
2. Triggering Event
3. Escalation Phase
4. Outburst Crisis
5. Recovery
What are the 4 questions we ask ourselves in a crisis situation?
1. What am I feeling now?
2. What does this young person feel, need, or want?
3. How is the environment affecting the . young person?
4. How do I best respond?
What are examples of reflective responses?
"You feel uncomfortable when your friends talk about school." or "You are angry about
your visit being canceled. I'd be upset too." (Relating emotion to action)
What is summarization?
"Here is what I hear you saying, you felt food at first, but now..." (Summarizing feelings)
What does active listening do?
Helps young people talk our rather than act out
What is NOT active listening?
It is NOT time consuming
Name some behavior support techniques?
Managing the environment
Prompting
Caring gesture
Hurdle help
Redirection and distractions
Proximity
Directive statements
Time away
Planned ignore
Positive attention
What are the goals of emotional first aid?
1. Provide immediate help and support to reduce emotional intensity (co-regulation)
2. Resolve the immediate crisis
3. Keep the child int he program/activity
Name some strategies for emotional first aid.
