Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Colin Gordon-Smith
Senior Education Officer
Fremantle and Perth District
“He’s not in charge of you. He can’t make you react a certain way.”
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention
Triggers
- Contact with parents
IESCAPE
Isolate
Explore
Summarise
Connect behaviour to feelings (empathy + agree on consequences)
Alternative behaviour options
Practice new behaviour
Enter the child back into the regular routine
Educational plans can build trust with children – direct input into plan makes them
accountable
Identify needs
-Baseline behaviour? Is it typical? Child/family worldview? Pain based behaviour? Feelings?
Why today?
CALM, CONNECTED AND SAFE
LAUGHTER IS POWERFUL
Time in- not time out! When you’re reading come back! Time out is seen as further
rejection…
Offer choices! Let them help! purpose
Offer descriptive praise- focus on the job done! ie. “I liked how you showed thoughtfulness”
“you were very creative in your assignment!”