What are the risks of Distressed Behaviour in Care Homes?
Distressed Behaviours in Care Homes – what are the risks? This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. We have met hundreds of care home staff in our training sessions, and this article aims to clarify some of the issues related to managing aggression and violence with older people, or vulnerable […]
How to NOT end up on Panorama; decision making as culture.
This post is about conflict management, personal safety, and Dynamis training. It asks a hard question: how do organisations avoid the kind of culture that ends up featured on Panorama or Dispatches? Over time, decision-making becomes culture If more team-members spoke up, more effectively and more often, how many disasters, scandals and failures could be […]
Restraint Reduction Outcomes
Restraint Reduction OutcomesThe new trainer team for this service began rolling out their own programme (a four-day, full-spectrum course for their LD/MH setting) to their staff in October. This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. By December, they had seen dramatic restraint reduction outcomes in key indicators such as […]
Breakaway training in care
Breakaway training in care – an example of positive outcomes Conflict Management | Personal Safety | Dynamis Training: At one point early in the training programme it becomes important to look at physical self-protection training, especially if the service data shows that some service users, when distressed, target staff with violence by grabbing, hitting or […]
Becoming an effective PMVA Trainer
This post is about conflict management | personal safety | dynamis training. Probably the most important decision a company makes when it wants to change the culture of their workplace is this: Which personalities will lead the training effort? In this case, the organisation chose three of their most senior carers, who had all […]
social contract in restraint reduction
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. What happens when people can’t predict with any certainty how an organisation will respond to their transgression of an agreement? If a social contract is broken, and the consequences could slide on a scale from ‘nothing’ to ‘serious’ — how many people would take […]
Training needs analysis for restraint reduction
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. It is an excerpt from our 18-page case study about how we achieved significant restraint reduction outcomes with this training programme. To read the case study and learn about the project, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. In line with our accredited quality assurance […]
Restraint Reduction Trainer Development
This post is about conflict management, personal safety and Dynamis training. It is an excerpt from our 18-page case study about how we achieved significant restraint reduction outcomes with a Restraint Reduction Trainer Development programme. To read the full case study, please visit our Restraint Reduction page. The results of our recent Restraint Reduction Trainer […]
Challenging Behaviour in Elderly Dementia Care: Bathing without the Bruises
Care assistants and caregivers consistently find that bathing is one of the flashpoints for conflict and combative behaviour with elderly residents in care — particularly those who may be confused or distressed because of the effects of dementia. As a company that teaches physical intervention, we often get called in to talk about how staff […]
Feedback on Distressed Behaviour In Dementia Care
Our client for this ongoing Safe Caring support package is a mid-sized care provider based in the south of England. The organisation has multiple sites and supports individuals facing the challenges of living with dementia day-to-day, offering reassurance, support and flexibility. Our most recent Managing Distressed Behaviour in Dementia Care training engagement with this long-standing […]