TCI 1 -May 2024 Flashcards
Steps of a Life Space Interview (LSI)
- Identify a time & place to talk
- Explore the child’s POV
- Summarise feelings & content
- Connect trigger to feelings to behaviour
- Alternate responses to feelings discussed
- Plan developed & practise
- Enter YP back into routine
Pain Based Behaviours?
- Inflexibility
- Trauma re-enactment
- Self harm/injury
- Defiance
- Running away through anger or fear
- Overreaction to situations
- Withdrawal
- Impulsive outbursts
- Inability to regulate emotions
3 regions of the Triune Brain
- Thinking
- Emotional (Amydala; Limbic system)
- Survival
Active Listening
Encouraging and Eliciting Techniques
- Minimal Encouragers
- Open Questions
- Closed Questions
- Door Openers
Elements of a potentially violent situation
- Spark
- Target
- Weapon
- Level of motivation/stress
Active Listening
Reflective & Empathic Responses
Reflective Responses connect with the YP’s feelings
Empathic Responses connect with the YP’s experience,
4 Questions we ask ourselves in a crisis
- What am I feeling right now?
- What does the YP feel, need, expect, or want?
- How is the environment affecting the situation?
- How do I best respond.
3 outcomes for the Recovery Phase of the Stress Model of Crisis
- Higher
- No change
- Lower
Name the spaces of the Therapeutic Milieau
- Social
- Physical
- Ideological
- Cultural
- Emotional
Setting Condition
Anything that makes the challenging behaviour or traumatic stress responses more or less likely to occur.
Behaviour Support Techniques?
- Managing the environment
- Proximity
- Prompting
- Caring Gesture
- Hurdle Help
- Time Away
- Redirection/Distraction
- Directive Statements
Non-Verbal Crisis Communication
What to say?
- Say very little
- Speak calmly, assertively & respectfully
- Understanding responses
- affirm & validate YP’s feelings
- communicate an understanding before making a request
- share a belief you can work this out together
- offer an apology
- Remember tone of voice
Non-Verbal Crisis Communication
What to do?
- Take a deep breath and slowly exhale
- Silence
- Give YP time and space
- If safe to do so, step out of their line of sight
- Maintain a neutral stance and concerned facial expression
Predisposing risk factors that put YP at greater risk of serious injury during a physical restraint?
- Obesity
- Influence of drugs or alcohol
- Prolonged violent physical agitation
- Underlying natural disease
- Hot/Humid environments
- Individuals taking certain medication/s
- Effects of severe trauma history.
Name situations in which restraint should be avoided?
(Part 1)
- The staff cannot remain calm and in control
- The staff is so angry with, or afraid of the YP that staff might intentionally or unintentionally inflict harm as a result of restraint
- The child is threatening the staff with bodily injury and appears to be capable of inflicting it