Children's Care Home Physical Interventions

Our principal trainer Gerard O'Dea spent four days recently with an organisation involved in the full time care, throughcare and aftercare programme for looked-after children.  The organisation wanted to focus on De-Escalation and Personal Safety skills for staff and allocated 2 days for the training course to run through topics as follows: Understanding Behaviour and Triggers - The processes of aggression (Kaplan and Wheeler model) - Behavioural triggers and the SCARF model - Primal patterns of group behaviour - 'Status seeking displays' Verbal Defense and Influence concepts: - Defusing and De-escalation of aggression - Encouraging Compliance, Cooperation and Collaboration - Beyond Active Listening and the Persuasion Sequence - Managing Proximity and Body Language Signals Personal Protection *Understanding the principles of Reasonable Force *The Duty of Reasonable Care *Risk Awareness in Violent Confrontations *Reflexive Movement for Breakaway and Disengagement *Survival, Reversal and Escape tactics Feedback on the Children's Care Home Physical Interventions course was excellent overall, with numerous staff commenting on the difference in relevance, appropriateness and effectiveness. I felt that I got a lot from the course and would recommend it to other organisations. I also feel able to defend myself in certain situations. 10/10 It was enjoyable and a good balance between the theory and practical physical training. 10/10 The course was good fun, exceeded expectations! 10/10 Well delivered, fully explored the issues and gave me confidence to carry out the techniques of de-escalation and personal safety. 10/10 Excellent 2-day training course, exceeded expectations, 10/10 I feel that I am going to be much more confident in my practice, and will feel able to deal with incidents more confidently as I now know I have the ability to deal with any challenges which occur. Thank you! Exceeded Expectations I thought the course was very well executed and had a lot of evidence and legal information to back everything up. 10/10 Exceeded Expectations Excellent, delivered exceptionally well, 10/10 Exceeded Expectations Great Course, Well presented A+! Very well delivered and answers to any questions given clearly. 10/10 Exceeded Expectations Children's Care Home Physical Interventions Training