PCM TRAINING EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Critical: when implementing the barr procedure, how should the practitioner position
their hands? - answers -prone barr: palms facing up. - layed on front
Critical: supine barr-layed on back - answers -individuals palms should be facing down
What is the criteria for implementing transportation procedures? What is crisis? * -
answers -*cash* 1. Continuous 2. Aggression 3.self injury 4.high magnitude disruption
What is the criteria for implementing horizontal immobilization? - answers -1. Imminent
breakdown of transportation or breakdown of transportation procedures
2. Availability of safety equipment
3. All participants implementing the procedures are certified level 2 practitioner or
certified
Peeling technique - answers -peeling technique involves using the thumbs and the
hands to push, pull or gently remove whatever hand or foot is being used to hold onto
staff
Tracking - answers -brief observation of one individual in class or group done evry 20
seconds
Why is setting strategies important? - answers -discovering any relationship between
setting and characteristics is important cuz simple manipulation in setting characteristics
can lead to stable behavior or dramatic reduction in crisis behavior
When attempting to de-escalate - answers -practice using non reactive response to
inconsequential verbal assaults and disruptions
Types of social praise - answers -individual call outs, group call outs, pivot, quiet praises
(smile, pat on back)
What are systematic and incidental motivational strategies? Like social praise - answers
-during post crisis it is important to move slowly when reinforcing positive reinforcement.
As the individual returns to previous activities use low magnitude and subtle or low key
forms of verbal or gestural reinforcement
Transportation breakdown is characterized by the individual being transported nearly
escaping or inuring himself or herself or the transporting staff - answers -criteria for
immobilization procedures
What is vertical immobilization? - answers -consist of halting the ongoing transportation
procedure and eliminating as far as possible any forward or sideways movement of the
individual in a standing positionwhat is pcm? - answers -the professional crisis
Critical: when implementing the barr procedure, how should the practitioner position
their hands? - answers -prone barr: palms facing up. - layed on front
Critical: supine barr-layed on back - answers -individuals palms should be facing down
What is the criteria for implementing transportation procedures? What is crisis? * -
answers -*cash* 1. Continuous 2. Aggression 3.self injury 4.high magnitude disruption
What is the criteria for implementing horizontal immobilization? - answers -1. Imminent
breakdown of transportation or breakdown of transportation procedures
2. Availability of safety equipment
3. All participants implementing the procedures are certified level 2 practitioner or
certified
Peeling technique - answers -peeling technique involves using the thumbs and the
hands to push, pull or gently remove whatever hand or foot is being used to hold onto
staff
Tracking - answers -brief observation of one individual in class or group done evry 20
seconds
Why is setting strategies important? - answers -discovering any relationship between
setting and characteristics is important cuz simple manipulation in setting characteristics
can lead to stable behavior or dramatic reduction in crisis behavior
When attempting to de-escalate - answers -practice using non reactive response to
inconsequential verbal assaults and disruptions
Types of social praise - answers -individual call outs, group call outs, pivot, quiet praises
(smile, pat on back)
What are systematic and incidental motivational strategies? Like social praise - answers
-during post crisis it is important to move slowly when reinforcing positive reinforcement.
As the individual returns to previous activities use low magnitude and subtle or low key
forms of verbal or gestural reinforcement
Transportation breakdown is characterized by the individual being transported nearly
escaping or inuring himself or herself or the transporting staff - answers -criteria for
immobilization procedures
What is vertical immobilization? - answers -consist of halting the ongoing transportation
procedure and eliminating as far as possible any forward or sideways movement of the
individual in a standing positionwhat is pcm? - answers -the professional crisis
