Successful TCIS implementation 4 stages of a Power Struggle Crisis

• Leadership & Administration

• Stressful Incident
Communication
• Social Work & Clinical Services
• Student’s Feelings
is 55% facial
• Data driven incident monitoring

• Student’s Behavior
expressions,
• Supervision and post crisis response
38% Tone of
• Adult’s Response
• Training Voice, and only
7% is your
Setting Conditions words.
Strategies to avoid a power struggle
• Organizational

• Self talk

• Personal

• Listening & Validating Feelings

Goals of Emotional
• Environmental
First Aid
• Manage Environment

• Instructional

• Student Choices
• Promote
• Community Culture

• Change Expectations
immediate help to

“A setting condition is anything that reduce emotional

intensity

makes a crisis more of less likely.”

Active Listening • Resolve the crisis

• Validates Feelings
• Keep the student
Stress Model of Crisis in the activity
• Reduces Defensiveness

1. Pre-crisis - Baseline

• Promotes Change

2. Trigger - Agitated
Strategies of
• Shows you care

3. Escalation - Aggressive
Emotional First Aid
Non-verbal techniques include
4. Outburst - Violence
• Drain off Emotions

nodding, eye-contact, silence, and • Clarify Events

5. Recovery - Return to Baseline

your facial expressions. • Maintain
Relationship

Educator • Remind students

Behavior Support Techniques of expectations
• Manage Environment

Outcomes Firefighter
• Prompting

Types of Anger
Abuser • Hurdle Help

Reactive anger is
• Redirection
uncontrolled,
• Proximity
emotional, and
Self Awareness Questions
• Directive Statement
impulsive.

1. How am I Feeling?
Proactive Anger is
• Time Away

2. What the the child want/need/feel?

deliberate,
“The key to using Behavioral Support
3. How is the environment affecting methodical, and
Techniques is to match them to student
calm
the child?
needs.”
4. How do I best respond?
Crisis co-regulation Pain Based
L.S.I. (Life Space Intervention)
• Self Awareness (Think) Behaviors
• Isolate the conversation
• Use positive self talk
• Aggressivness

• Ask yourself the 4 questions

• Explore the child’s P.O.V.

• Impulsivity

• Verbal Strategies (Say) • Summarize their feelings • Defiance

• Say very little

• Connect feelings to behavior • Running Away

• L.S.I.
• Alternative behaviors discussed • Inability to
• Monitor your tone of voice
• Plan developed & practiced regulate emotions

• Use understanding responses

• Enter student back into activity
• Re-enacting
such as:
trauma
• I can see. . .

“L.S.I. is a therapeutic verbal strategy

• When you. . .

for young people”

• I know we. . .

• I am sorry that. . .
“Remember, all
Goals of L.S.I.
• Non-Verbal Strategies (Do) behaviors have
• Take a deep breath
• Return the child to baseline

meaning, therefore
• Have an open stance
• Clarify the events

• Repair & restore the relationship

student’s behaviors
• Step back

• Give it time
• Teach coping skills
reflect their needs."

• Sit down
• Reintegrate back into the class
• Control your body language

4 elements that make an incident potentially violent

Trigger Target Weapon Motivation

“To reduce the risk of violence remove one of these.”