The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention^® program…Not Just Physical Restraint Training

Sometimes prospective customers ask, “Is this where I can get physical restraint training?” The Nonviolent Crisis Intervention^® program includes physical interventions and personal safety techniques, which are designed to maximize the safety of everyone involved in a crisis situation. However, the real intent of training is to learn a system of verbal and physical intervention techniques to allow staff to recognize and address escalating behavior at its earliest stages, before escalating further.

CPI teaches that staff should only consider the use of a physical intervention as an emergency intervention to respond to an individual posing an imminent danger to self or others and that the intervention is a last resort. Rather than restraint training, the Nonviolent Crisis Intervention^® program focuses on ways to avoid the necessity to restrain.

Staff must be aware that serious physical and psychological risks are inherent in any physical intervention, and indeed the only truly safe physical restraint is the one that never happened. To help explain these risks, CPI has published, Risks of Restraints, and included this information in training materials.

You can download Risks of Restraints: Understanding Restraint Related Positional Asphyxia eBook for no charge if you take a moment to fill out the information below.

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