Description: Please join us as our guest speaker, Cindi Lashinsky, repeats her crisis planning training from our June 2014 PA Autism Training Conference (PATC). This presentation is designed to challenge the thought behind the traditional policy of automatic referral to Crisis Intervention and/or hospitalization for behaviors related to potential harm to self or others. A relationship-based approach is presented as an alternative. This training aims to ensure that all participants have at least one authentic relationship with a staff person, and that staff is well trained, comfortable with the potential topics, and that the provider supports and empowers the staff person to make meaningful decisions. Also explored are the ways in which hospitalization can serve as a reinforcer to maladaptive coping skills as well as challenging behaviors. Special attention is paid to ensuring that the emphasis is on crisis prevention, and ensuring that providers do not inadvertently create crisis through policy.
Credit hours: 2 (total)
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