TCI - Therapeutic Crisis Intervention Test Review Graded A+
TCI
Purpose:
- Trauma-Informed Care/De-escalation
- Emphasizes physical presence
- Effective for ages 5 and up (not suitable for younger children)
- Acknowledges that all feelings are valid; how one responds is crucial
Developmental Relationships are Characterized by:
- Attachment
- Reciprocity (e.g., playing catch)
- Progressive Complexity (e.g., reward systems)
- Balance of Power
A Trauma-Informed Organization:
- Supports and promotes trauma-informed care through:
- Policies
- Procedures
- Practices
,A Trauma-Informed Organization Ensures That Staff:
- Understand what trauma is and how it impacts everyone within the system
- Recognize behaviors and patterns that indicate trauma (past or present)
- Respond in ways that avoid triggering trauma
The TCI System Assists Organizations to:
- Prevent crises from occurring
- De-escalate potential crises
- Manage acute physical behavior
- Reduce potential and actual injury to young people and staff
- Teach young people adaptive coping skills
- Develop a learning organization
Competencies:
1. Ability to prevent and/or de-escalate potential crisis situations with children/young people
2. Ability to safely and therapeutically manage crisis situations
3. Ability to process with children, helping them improve their capacity to regulate emotions and use
positive coping strategies
, Therapeutic Milieu:
("The Living") The combination of people, emotions, attitudes, and objects that create a sense of safety,
respect, belonging, care, and accountability
spaces within therapeutic milieu ✔️(these are the things that we can control - the spaces)
- ideological - connection/programming
- physical - safe/clean environment
- cultural - diversity - accept/celebrate cultural differences
- social - attachments/relationships, develop skills
- emotional - safety/acceptance, effects of trauma
setting conditions ✔️anything that makes challenging behavior/traumatic stress responses more or less
likely to occur
foundations for intentional use of self ✔️- self awareness - knowing own attitudes, beliefs, values
(ready/willing/able - 'neutrality)
- self regulation - focus attention, awareness of physical/emotional state (regulate behaviors)
- relationship skills/attunement - listen/engage, "tune-in" respond to child, be aware of own feelings (be
present and aware)
TCI
Purpose:
- Trauma-Informed Care/De-escalation
- Emphasizes physical presence
- Effective for ages 5 and up (not suitable for younger children)
- Acknowledges that all feelings are valid; how one responds is crucial
Developmental Relationships are Characterized by:
- Attachment
- Reciprocity (e.g., playing catch)
- Progressive Complexity (e.g., reward systems)
- Balance of Power
A Trauma-Informed Organization:
- Supports and promotes trauma-informed care through:
- Policies
- Procedures
- Practices
,A Trauma-Informed Organization Ensures That Staff:
- Understand what trauma is and how it impacts everyone within the system
- Recognize behaviors and patterns that indicate trauma (past or present)
- Respond in ways that avoid triggering trauma
The TCI System Assists Organizations to:
- Prevent crises from occurring
- De-escalate potential crises
- Manage acute physical behavior
- Reduce potential and actual injury to young people and staff
- Teach young people adaptive coping skills
- Develop a learning organization
Competencies:
1. Ability to prevent and/or de-escalate potential crisis situations with children/young people
2. Ability to safely and therapeutically manage crisis situations
3. Ability to process with children, helping them improve their capacity to regulate emotions and use
positive coping strategies
, Therapeutic Milieu:
("The Living") The combination of people, emotions, attitudes, and objects that create a sense of safety,
respect, belonging, care, and accountability
spaces within therapeutic milieu ✔️(these are the things that we can control - the spaces)
- ideological - connection/programming
- physical - safe/clean environment
- cultural - diversity - accept/celebrate cultural differences
- social - attachments/relationships, develop skills
- emotional - safety/acceptance, effects of trauma
setting conditions ✔️anything that makes challenging behavior/traumatic stress responses more or less
likely to occur
foundations for intentional use of self ✔️- self awareness - knowing own attitudes, beliefs, values
(ready/willing/able - 'neutrality)
- self regulation - focus attention, awareness of physical/emotional state (regulate behaviors)
- relationship skills/attunement - listen/engage, "tune-in" respond to child, be aware of own feelings (be
present and aware)
