Building Healthy Relationships
MANDT
Building healthy relationships teaches us how to prevent incidents by increasing safety physically, psychologically and emotionally
I've come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in my _____________. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I posses tremendous power to make ______________ life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of insperiation. I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is MY response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated and a person humanized or dehumanized.
I find this quote to be very powerful, how does this statement resonate with you and in what ways? Please post your thoughts on the D2L discussion post.
Graded and Gradual Alternatives
We want to support people, not just their behavior. As we increase through the continuum of supports, the risks increase for the child as well as staff.
Maslow's Hierachy of Needs
Are the students' basic needs being met? When people's needs are unmet they will increase the frequency, duration, and intensity of their behavior until their needs are met. You should consider physical, psychological, emotional and social safety.
Remember they are using their behavior to communicate to you that something needs to change.
Crisis Cycle
Recognize - use your senses to determine what has changed in the environment.
Access - analyze what is happening to the peopel and the environment around you.
Decide - determine how to respond to what is happening
Act - verbal, non-verbal or physical response to a situation
Review Results - consider staff decisions and the sitaution's outcome to determine what works well and what needs to change.
"Relationship is the single most theraputic modality for ameliorating threats of violence, emotional crisis and hte need for restraint." - Dr. Peter Breggin
Putting People First
We want to treat everyone with dignity and respect, because of who they are, not because of what they do or don't do. We do this by using a graded and gradual system of alternatives.
MANDT Certification Class
All are welcome to come for a refresher of the skills and concepts of MANDT. Please contact Tara Kalis if you wish to sit in on this event.