Mindset Initial Certification

What is the purpose of the Mindset Training Curriculum?

• To prevent kids from being aggressive towards staff

• To facilitate insight, raise awareness, enhance skills, and ultimately certify professionals in a system of preventing and managing aggressive behaviors.

• To give students the ability to communicate their feelings, because feelings drive behavior.

• To ensure that students are receiving a Free and Appropriate Education.

Choose the answer that shows some of the Keys to Success.

• -A comprehensive and clear policy and procedure

  -Restraint is the intervention of last resort

  -All Staff trained in de-escalation techniques

• -Structure

  -Guidance

  -Consistency

• -Rules

  -Restrain when necessary

  -Call admin with any questions

• -Documentation

  -FAPE

  -IEP

Choose the Four Guiding Principles.

• -Clear policy

  -Last resort

  -Avoid power struggles

  -Document everything

• -Debrief when necessary

  - Give preference assessments

  -Use a bear hug to calm quickly

  -Avoid others

• -Promote choice and trust

  -Avoid power struggles

  -Seek pro-action vs. re-action

  -Set everyone up for success

• -FAPE

  -IDEA

  -NCLB

  -504

What are the types of barriers that staff encounter?

• -Staff

  -Student

  -Environment

• -Teachers

  -Administrators

  -Students

• -Full Moon

  -Medication

  - Poverty

• -IEP

  -504

  -LRE

What are the 3 guidelines for successful crisis communication?

• -Promote choice and trust

  -Avoid power struggles

  -Set everyone up for success

• -Get in your Car

  -Create a 1-1

  -Timing is everything

• -Get on the bus

  -Drive Home

  -Try again tomorrow

• -Talk a lot

  - Give suggestions

  -Make a plan

What are the three reasons when physical restraint would be appropriate.

• - being mean to others

  -Yelling

  -throwing pencil

• -Cursing at staff

  -Spitting on the teacher

  - Not completing an assigned task

• -Refusing to go to class

  -Hitting others

  -Running

• -Harm to self

  -Harm to Others

  -Harm is imminent

What the 3 potential responses once in a vertical containment?

• -Run

  -Hide

  -Call for help

• -Stop

  -Drop

  -Roll

• -Calm down

  -Go to sleep

  -Cry

• - Lay down

  -Roll over

  -Lay on side

Why is it important to have the aggressor's shoulders perpendicular to the floor?

• -Supports positioning

  -Its therapeutic

  -Does not hurt

• -Stop

  -Drop

  -Roll

• -No direct body pressure

  -Able to breath

  -Staff can monitor the student's face

• - Easier to maintain

  -Monitor breathing

  -Comfy position

Name 4 safety guidelines when containing horizontally.

• -Shoulders perpendicular

  -No direct pressure

  -Monitor breathing

  -No single staff take downs

• -Be careful

  -Be mindful

  -Be quiet

  -Be Kind

• -Face down

  -Arms behind back

  -Pressure on back

  -Release after 20 minutes

• -Face up

  -Shoulders down

  -Monitor breathing

  - Release after 5 minutes

What should you do if you observe physical distress during a physical restraint?

• -Move to face down

  -Call for help

• -Let go

  -Call parent

• -Squeeze tighter

  -Call for help

• -Release

  -Get nurse