Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) Overview
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) - correct answer ✔ ✔ system is
to reduce or eliminate the need for high risk interventions and to provide
adults with the skills and knowledge to become the catalyst through
which children and young people learn new skills, increase their self-
efficacy and thrive
Developmental Relationship - correct answer ✔ ✔ characterized by
attachment, reciprocity, progressive complexity, and balance of power.
Clinical participation - correct answer ✔ ✔ ICSP for children who
exhibit high-risk behaviors is critical to responding appropriately and
therapeutically to a child in crisis.
Training and competency standards - correct answer ✔ ✔
Comprehensive training program includes prevention, de-escalation,
and management of crises as well as child and adolescent development,
,trauma-informed interventions, cultural competence, and individual and
group behavior support strategies
Documentation, incident monitoring, and feedback - correct answer ✔
✔ Data management includes the documentation of staff supervision
and training and the documentation and monitoring of behavioral
incidents
Therapeutic Milieu - correct answer ✔ ✔ offers a safe, nurturing
environment in which children can heal and continually learn and
practice important life skills. Grow, develop, thrive.
Milieu - correct answer ✔ ✔ made up of people, emotions, attitudes,
and physical objects and is about the physical, social, cultural,
emotional, and ideological space where children can live and work
Ideological Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ When children have
opportunities and are encouraged to participate in activities that promote
normal growth and development, they learn positive alternatives to
patterns of self-destructive and inappropriate behaviors.
Physical Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ Creating a trauma-informed
physical setting promotes a sense of safety, fosters healing, encourages
play and relationship building activities, reduces stress and anxiety, and
provides a positive working environment.
, Cultural Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ Being culturally competent is a
developmental process beginning with self-awareness and leadid to the
building of skills that result in culturally responsive behavior
Emotional Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ Helping children to learn to
manage their emotions and providing them with a sense of safety, their
stress responses are easily triggered resulting in overwhelming feelings
of fear, anger, and frustration in addition to volatile behavior
Setting conditions - correct answer ✔ ✔ anything that makes
challenging behavior and traumatic stress responses more or less likely
to occur
Use Of Self - correct answer ✔ ✔ Self-awareness, self-regulation,
relationship skills and attunement, self-care
Self-regulation - correct answer ✔ ✔ ability to regulate one's
behavior, emotions, and thoughts in order to achieve a longer-term goal.
relationship skills and attunement - correct answer ✔ ✔ to develop
the relationship we need to be able to listen and engage the childe, tune
in to what the child is saying and feeling, be aware of the feelings that
Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (TCI) - correct answer ✔ ✔ system is
to reduce or eliminate the need for high risk interventions and to provide
adults with the skills and knowledge to become the catalyst through
which children and young people learn new skills, increase their self-
efficacy and thrive
Developmental Relationship - correct answer ✔ ✔ characterized by
attachment, reciprocity, progressive complexity, and balance of power.
Clinical participation - correct answer ✔ ✔ ICSP for children who
exhibit high-risk behaviors is critical to responding appropriately and
therapeutically to a child in crisis.
Training and competency standards - correct answer ✔ ✔
Comprehensive training program includes prevention, de-escalation,
and management of crises as well as child and adolescent development,
,trauma-informed interventions, cultural competence, and individual and
group behavior support strategies
Documentation, incident monitoring, and feedback - correct answer ✔
✔ Data management includes the documentation of staff supervision
and training and the documentation and monitoring of behavioral
incidents
Therapeutic Milieu - correct answer ✔ ✔ offers a safe, nurturing
environment in which children can heal and continually learn and
practice important life skills. Grow, develop, thrive.
Milieu - correct answer ✔ ✔ made up of people, emotions, attitudes,
and physical objects and is about the physical, social, cultural,
emotional, and ideological space where children can live and work
Ideological Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ When children have
opportunities and are encouraged to participate in activities that promote
normal growth and development, they learn positive alternatives to
patterns of self-destructive and inappropriate behaviors.
Physical Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ Creating a trauma-informed
physical setting promotes a sense of safety, fosters healing, encourages
play and relationship building activities, reduces stress and anxiety, and
provides a positive working environment.
, Cultural Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ Being culturally competent is a
developmental process beginning with self-awareness and leadid to the
building of skills that result in culturally responsive behavior
Emotional Space - correct answer ✔ ✔ Helping children to learn to
manage their emotions and providing them with a sense of safety, their
stress responses are easily triggered resulting in overwhelming feelings
of fear, anger, and frustration in addition to volatile behavior
Setting conditions - correct answer ✔ ✔ anything that makes
challenging behavior and traumatic stress responses more or less likely
to occur
Use Of Self - correct answer ✔ ✔ Self-awareness, self-regulation,
relationship skills and attunement, self-care
Self-regulation - correct answer ✔ ✔ ability to regulate one's
behavior, emotions, and thoughts in order to achieve a longer-term goal.
relationship skills and attunement - correct answer ✔ ✔ to develop
the relationship we need to be able to listen and engage the childe, tune
in to what the child is saying and feeling, be aware of the feelings that