PCMA study guide

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

• prevention

• communication

• ignorance
• punishment

Practitioners only use the procedures needed to stop crisis, that is, nothing more ____than necessary.

• less
• additional
• extra
• restrictive

Practitioners must perform PCM procedures as taught. Practitioners MUST NOT ______ and PCM procedure.

• modify
• deviate from
• ignore
• improvise on

Level P is a minimum of (__) hours, P1 is (__) hours and P2P, P2S, P2PS are (__) hours

• 14,16,22

• 3, 6,9

• 5, 10, 15

• 10, 12, 16

All PCM procedures place an individual in a natural and ________ position

• awkward
• relaxed
• stiff
• comfortable

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

• sit and be still
• remain isolated
• be restrained
• make choices

PCM transportation procedures include the automatic use of behavioral ______ and ______ principles, referred to as Dynamic Holding

• management, control
• safety, security
• communication, collaboration
• Shaping and fading

Transportation could possibly ______crisis behavior by removing the individual from a place/situation that they dislike.

• intensify
• alleviate
• exacerbate
• reinforce

**The criteria for Transportation require the same conditions as crisis:

-Continuous ________

-Continuous ________

-Continuous High Magnitude __________.

• aggression, self-injury, disruption

• Extreme, Magnitude, violence

• violence, injury, anger

• aggression, self injury, violence

Behavior and Physiology change in _____ ways when moving through the cycle of crisis.

• constant
• consistent
• predictable

• various