Test Review

For each level on the Cycle of Crisis, what are the four strategies for staff to use?

• Stable Functioning, Pre-Crisis, Crisis Behaviors, Post-Crisis

• Shaping, fading, target behaviors, guiding principles

• Behavior, Thinking, Physiology, Emotion

• Prevention, De-escalation, Crisis Intervention, Reintegration

• Building Relationships, Accommodating Environments, Pre-Teaching, Active Listening

Individuals in Pre-Crisis Level 2 are off-task and also visibly _____________

• upset/agitated

• hurting themselves

• dancing

• out of the area

• smiling

What type of behavior is it when someone stops doing the assigned task or activity?

• Junk

• Post-Crisis

• Off-Task

• Stable

• Avoidance

Staff can increase their proximity by moving closer in a non-threatening way and avoiding what?

• Making a noise

• Talking

• Physical Contact

• Showing Fear

• Eye Contact

PCM's use of the "least restrictive intervention" results in more opportunities for individuals to ______________, even during crisis intervention.

• escape

• escalate

• make choices

• make fun of staff

• run amuck

To help staff choose the best ways to prevent problem behavior, they need knowledge about what?

• Physical restraint

• Their coworkers

• The classroom/environment

• The individual

• Reinforcement and punishment

When managing tasks and activities in Post-Crisis Level 2: At first tasks should be familiar to the individual, but what types of tasks should be avoided?

• academic

• easy

• age-appropriate

• preferred

• helpful

Staff should remain "non-reactive" (respond but with little interest) and keep emotions low when dealing with what type of behavior?

• junk behavior

• aggressive behavior

• self-injurious behavior

• sarcasm

• high magnitude disruption

Minor behavior problems, whether predictable or unpredictable, can very often be eliminated using ____________ & de-escalation strategies.

• reintegration

• prevention

• crisis intervention

• punishment

• common sense

Basic practitioners only use strategies and techniques needed, nothing more _____________ than necessary.

• painful

• uncomfortable

• restrictive

• aggressive

• soft