THERAPEUTIC CRISIS INTERVENTION STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
List the Behavior Support Techniques - (answer)Managing the environment
Prompting
Caring gesture
Hurdle help
Redirection and distractions
Proximity
Directive statements
Time away
Any thing that makes challenging behavior and traumatic stress responses more or less likely to occur -
(answer)Setting Conditions
List the steps of Life Space Interview (LSI) - (answer)Identify a place and time to talk
Explore child's point of view
Summarize feeling and content
Connect trigger to feelings to behavior
Alternative responses to feelings discussed
Plan developed/practice
Enter child back into the routine
List the 3 basic processing regions of the Triune Brain Model - (answer)Think Brain - neocortex
Emotional Brain - limbic system
Survival Brain - brain stem
What are the strategies for emotional first aid? - (answer)Co-regulate emotions - be a calm presence
Maintain relationship and lines of communication
Plan and anticipate - be a coach
, THERAPEUTIC CRISIS INTERVENTION STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What are the 4 elements of a potentially violent situation? - (answer)The spark
The target
Weapon
Level of stress or motivation
Name the skills needed for Intentional Use of Self - (answer)self-awareness
self-regulation
relationships & attunement
self-care
List warning signs during a restraint that indicated a child is in danger or at risk of asphyxia -
(answer)going limp and ceasing to breathe
stating they cannot breathe
labored breathing - wheezing, gasping, coughing, shortness of breath
vomiting or gagging
making grunting noises
changes in skin color
a sudden change in struggle
bobbing of head, fatigue
excessing sweating
evacuation of bodily fluids (e.g. urination)
List the predisposing risk factors that put a child at greater risk of serious injury during a physical
restraint. - (answer)Obesity
Influence of drugs or alcohol
Prolonged violent physical agitation
ANSWERS
List the Behavior Support Techniques - (answer)Managing the environment
Prompting
Caring gesture
Hurdle help
Redirection and distractions
Proximity
Directive statements
Time away
Any thing that makes challenging behavior and traumatic stress responses more or less likely to occur -
(answer)Setting Conditions
List the steps of Life Space Interview (LSI) - (answer)Identify a place and time to talk
Explore child's point of view
Summarize feeling and content
Connect trigger to feelings to behavior
Alternative responses to feelings discussed
Plan developed/practice
Enter child back into the routine
List the 3 basic processing regions of the Triune Brain Model - (answer)Think Brain - neocortex
Emotional Brain - limbic system
Survival Brain - brain stem
What are the strategies for emotional first aid? - (answer)Co-regulate emotions - be a calm presence
Maintain relationship and lines of communication
Plan and anticipate - be a coach
, THERAPEUTIC CRISIS INTERVENTION STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What are the 4 elements of a potentially violent situation? - (answer)The spark
The target
Weapon
Level of stress or motivation
Name the skills needed for Intentional Use of Self - (answer)self-awareness
self-regulation
relationships & attunement
self-care
List warning signs during a restraint that indicated a child is in danger or at risk of asphyxia -
(answer)going limp and ceasing to breathe
stating they cannot breathe
labored breathing - wheezing, gasping, coughing, shortness of breath
vomiting or gagging
making grunting noises
changes in skin color
a sudden change in struggle
bobbing of head, fatigue
excessing sweating
evacuation of bodily fluids (e.g. urination)
List the predisposing risk factors that put a child at greater risk of serious injury during a physical
restraint. - (answer)Obesity
Influence of drugs or alcohol
Prolonged violent physical agitation
