Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions

Our principal trainer Gerard O’Dea spent four days recently with an organisation involved in the full time care, throughcare and aftercare programme for looked-after children.  The organisation wanted to focus on De-Escalation and Personal Safety skills for staff and allocated 2 days for the training course to run through topics as follows:

Understanding Behaviour and Triggers

– The processes of aggression (Kaplan and Wheeler model)
– Behavioural triggers and the SCARF model
– Primal patterns of group behaviour – ‘Status seeking displays’

Verbal Defense and Influence concepts:

– Defusing and De-escalation of aggression
– Encouraging Compliance, Cooperation and Collaboration
– Beyond Active Listening and the Persuasion Sequence

– Managing Proximity and Body Language Signals

Personal Protection

*Understanding the principles of Reasonable Force
*The Duty of Reasonable Care
*Risk Awareness in Violent Confrontations
*Reflexive Movement for Breakaway and Disengagement
*Survival, Reversal and Escape tactics

Feedback on the Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions course was excellent overall, with numerous staff commenting on the difference in relevance, appropriateness and effectiveness.

I felt that I got a lot from the course and would recommend it to other organisations. I also feel able to defend myself in certain situations. 10/10

It was enjoyable and a good balance between the theory and practical physical training. 10/10

The course was good fun, exceeded expectations! 10/10

Well delivered, fully explored the issues and gave me confidence to carry out the techniques of de-escalation and personal safety. 10/10

Excellent 2-day training course, exceeded expectations, 10/10

I feel that I am going to be much more confident in my practice, and will feel able to deal with incidents more confidently as I now know I have the ability to deal with any challenges which occur. Thank you! Exceeded Expectations

I thought the course was very well executed and had a lot of evidence and legal information to back everything up. 10/10 Exceeded Expectations

Excellent, delivered exceptionally well, 10/10 Exceeded Expectations

Great Course, Well presented A+!

Very well delivered and answers to any questions given clearly. 10/10 Exceeded Expectations

Children’s Care Home Physical Interventions Training