Simple skills for assessing, managing, and responding to risk behavior
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training is a behavior management system that teaches simple skills for assessing, managing, and responding to risk behavior at work. The focus is on verbal de-escalation, prevention, and early intervention. Safe physical intervention options are also taught, to be used only as a last resort.
This time-tested program gives you an effective framework for decision making and problem solving. It also equips you with the skills and confidence to champion a culture of Care, Welfare, Safety, and Security℠.
Course topics include:
The CPI Crisis Development Model℠
Learn the four levels of crisis development, and corresponding staff responses for each behavior level.
Nonverbal Communication
Explore how your nonverbal communication can positively or negatively affect an individual’s behavior.
Paraverbal Communication
Examine how the way you say what you say can influence how someone perceives your message.
Verbal Communication
Delve into verbal intervention and Empathic Listening approaches to de-escalate a situation and decelerate a person’s behavior.
Precipitating Factors, Rational Detachment, Integrated Experience
Discover how antecedents can influence behaviors, and explore how your attitudes and actions can influence a person in crisis.
Staff Fear and Anxiety
Explore how to cope with fear and anxiety, and how to stimulate positive and productive responses during crisis situations.
Decision Making
Organize your thinking about the risks of different behaviors. Learn critical analysis and rational reasoning to make appropriate decisions about how to respond in a situation.
Physical Interventions — Disengagement Skills
Learn nonharmful skills for responding to risk behaviors such as strikes and grabs.
Physical Interventions — Holding Skills
Understand the risks of restraint use. Explore progressive team responses to physical risk behaviors, and essential methods for discontinuing restraint use as soon as possible.
Postvention
Learn a key framework for debriefing, establishing Therapeutic Rapport, preventing future crises, and improving staff interventions.
Beyond the Basics
We continually develop additional content so that as a Certified Instructor, you can integrate topics such as PBIS, limit setting, and dementia into your staff trainings. To see all your options, visit our Shop. Also check out our Deep-Dive Courses for details about integrating topics such as autism and advanced physical skills into training.
As a Certified Instructor, you can also train your staff in any of the following Topic Modules. These two-hour courses allow you to customize your trainings to address the unique needs of your staff and the people in your care.
After the Crisis
Focus on employee debriefing and how to communicate with someone who has acted out.
Challenged by Mental Illness at Work
Build strategies for addressing mental health issues in your workplace.
Crisis Response Teams
Explore crisis intervention team strategies for dealing with someone who’s lost control of their behavior.
Giving Bad News
Learn how to give bad news directly and tactfully so the person feels they’ve been supported and treated fairly.
How to Document Incidents
Examine good documentation practices to ensure follow-up, identify patterns, and assess your policies and procedures.
Negotiating Your Way Through Conflict
Discover how to conduct constructive conflict negotiation sessions among individuals or groups.
Opening the Lines of Electronic Communication
Examine ways to communicate effectively when you can’t see the other person.
Setting Effective Limits
Learn how to offer positive, realistic, and motivating choices and consequences.
Situational Applications
Use role-plays to help employees apply their training to the real-life challenges they face every day.
Responding to Violence
Assess your staff’s and your organization’s preparedness for preventing and managing violence.
Workplace Bullying
Raise awareness about bullying and stop cruelty among colleagues. This course is helpful especially if you need to meet training requirements on workplace bullying.
Workplace Substance Abuse
Teach staff how to intervene in problem situations that involve substance use. This course is helpful especially if you need to meet training requirements on workplace substance abuse.