TCI TRAINING CORNELL EVALUATION EXAM ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Strategies to avoid/end the power struggle - ✔✔- Listen and validate feelings
- Manage the environment
- Give choices and the time to decide what to do next
- Drop or change the expectation
✔✔Emotional First Aid Goals - ✔✔1. provide immediate support to reduce emotional
intensity
2. identify and resolve the underlying concerns causing distress
3. keep the child IN the activity
✔✔The 3 r's to remember emotional first aid goals - ✔✔R: reduce emotional intensity
R: Resolve underlying concern
R: Remain in activity
✔✔Emotional First Aid Strategies - ✔✔1. co-regulate; calm presence
2. maintain the relationship and lines of communication
3. plan and anticipate, be the coach
✔✔The 3 C's to remember emotional first aid strategies - ✔✔C: Co-regulate emotions
with a calm presence.
C: Communication; maintain
C: Coach; plan and anticipate
✔✔Effects of anger during a stressful situation - ✔✔- anger can undermine the
objectivity
- emotional and physical state
- Cognitive abilities are reduces
"When we are at our angriest, we are at our stupidest"
✔✔Trauma-Informed Organization - ✔✔policies, procedures, and practices that help us
understand what trauma is and prevent retraumatization
✔✔Pain Based Behaviors - ✔✔- Inability to regulate emotions
- Self-injury
- Overreaction to situations
- Withdrawal
- Defiance
- Impulsive outbursts
- Running away through anger or fear
- Trauma re-enactment
- Inflexibility
, ✔✔Behavioral Support Techniques - ✔✔Managing the environment
Caring Gestures
Hurdle Help
Redirection and Distraction
Proximity
Directive Statement
Time Away
✔✔LSI Steps - ✔✔I -identify a place and time to talk
E - explore the child's point of view
S - summarize feelings and behavior
C - connect the trigger to feelings to behavior
A - alternative responses discussed
P - plan developed/practiced with caution
E - enter child back into activity
✔✔LSI Goals - ✔✔provide a sense of emotional security
help clarify events for the child and adult (child pov)
repair and restore the relationship btwn adult and child
help the child learn to regulate emotions
reenter the child back into the routine
✔✔Cultural Space - ✔✔- Develops culturally competent staff
- Accepts and celebrates cultural differences
- Supports family connections and involvement
- Allows for culturally diverse staff-child interactions
✔✔Social space - ✔✔- Values attachments and developmental relationships
- Balances structure and flexibility to meet individual and group needs
- Creates opportunities to participate and contribute
- Has goals, and structure and is designed to help children develop skills
- Allows for the practice of important life skills
✔✔Emotional Space - ✔✔- Takes into consideration specific effects of trauma
- Facilitates an atmosphere of safety and acceptance
- Encourages warm and responsive relationships
- Requires emotionally competent staff
- Allows for the development of co-regulation and self-regulation skills
✔✔Ideological Space - ✔✔- Communicates a philosophy of care
- Supports developmentally appropriate practice
- Provides opportunities for children to participate successfully in activities
- Involves children, families, and staff members in decision making
- Encourages relationship-building activities
- policies and procedures that create a learning environment
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔Strategies to avoid/end the power struggle - ✔✔- Listen and validate feelings
- Manage the environment
- Give choices and the time to decide what to do next
- Drop or change the expectation
✔✔Emotional First Aid Goals - ✔✔1. provide immediate support to reduce emotional
intensity
2. identify and resolve the underlying concerns causing distress
3. keep the child IN the activity
✔✔The 3 r's to remember emotional first aid goals - ✔✔R: reduce emotional intensity
R: Resolve underlying concern
R: Remain in activity
✔✔Emotional First Aid Strategies - ✔✔1. co-regulate; calm presence
2. maintain the relationship and lines of communication
3. plan and anticipate, be the coach
✔✔The 3 C's to remember emotional first aid strategies - ✔✔C: Co-regulate emotions
with a calm presence.
C: Communication; maintain
C: Coach; plan and anticipate
✔✔Effects of anger during a stressful situation - ✔✔- anger can undermine the
objectivity
- emotional and physical state
- Cognitive abilities are reduces
"When we are at our angriest, we are at our stupidest"
✔✔Trauma-Informed Organization - ✔✔policies, procedures, and practices that help us
understand what trauma is and prevent retraumatization
✔✔Pain Based Behaviors - ✔✔- Inability to regulate emotions
- Self-injury
- Overreaction to situations
- Withdrawal
- Defiance
- Impulsive outbursts
- Running away through anger or fear
- Trauma re-enactment
- Inflexibility
, ✔✔Behavioral Support Techniques - ✔✔Managing the environment
Caring Gestures
Hurdle Help
Redirection and Distraction
Proximity
Directive Statement
Time Away
✔✔LSI Steps - ✔✔I -identify a place and time to talk
E - explore the child's point of view
S - summarize feelings and behavior
C - connect the trigger to feelings to behavior
A - alternative responses discussed
P - plan developed/practiced with caution
E - enter child back into activity
✔✔LSI Goals - ✔✔provide a sense of emotional security
help clarify events for the child and adult (child pov)
repair and restore the relationship btwn adult and child
help the child learn to regulate emotions
reenter the child back into the routine
✔✔Cultural Space - ✔✔- Develops culturally competent staff
- Accepts and celebrates cultural differences
- Supports family connections and involvement
- Allows for culturally diverse staff-child interactions
✔✔Social space - ✔✔- Values attachments and developmental relationships
- Balances structure and flexibility to meet individual and group needs
- Creates opportunities to participate and contribute
- Has goals, and structure and is designed to help children develop skills
- Allows for the practice of important life skills
✔✔Emotional Space - ✔✔- Takes into consideration specific effects of trauma
- Facilitates an atmosphere of safety and acceptance
- Encourages warm and responsive relationships
- Requires emotionally competent staff
- Allows for the development of co-regulation and self-regulation skills
✔✔Ideological Space - ✔✔- Communicates a philosophy of care
- Supports developmentally appropriate practice
- Provides opportunities for children to participate successfully in activities
- Involves children, families, and staff members in decision making
- Encourages relationship-building activities
- policies and procedures that create a learning environment
