When a situation becomes escalated, it is common for us to freeze, fight back, or retreat from the situation. However, while providing services to individuals, we need to use our environment and communication skills to find and maintain safety.
In the Keep Calm & Carry On: Working with Difficult Clients webinar we identified underlying causality to a person or situation to become escalated and develop skills to empathize and be with the person. In this second installment, we build upon those skills while exploring different communication techniques to keep ourselves and clients calm through the escalated situation. Using crisis intervention prevention models, we identify skills to make sure our encounters with clients are safe, healthy, and productive. Furthermore, we discuss some necessary therapeutic skills to deploy when dealing with escalation by reconceptualizing the capabilities of verbal judo.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the key notions of how to use the crisis prevention intervention, handle through care, and verbal judo methods.
- Increase active listening/responding, mirroring, and developing a holding environment skills.
- Practice skills through the use of case study presentation.
Presenter:
Jeffrey Hanna, Ph.D., DSW, LCSW, ACSW
Teaching Assistant Professor
School of Social Work
West Virginia University
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