Promoting Positive Behaviour & De-escalation Skills 24/25

Target Group:

This course is targeted to foster carers and social care roles in children’s services who work for the London Borough of Sutton.

Aims

The aim of this session is:

•  To be equipped with therapeutic engagement using PACE and De-escalation skills.

Learning Outcomes:

By attending this session, participants will have:  

• An ability to identity what Playfulness is and isn't and when to apply it
• An ability to identify challenges and difficulties presented by some looked-after children and young people.
• An increased knowledge about the roots and causes of challenging behaviour
• An increased knowledge about coping mechanisms and appropriate responses from carers by using the PACE model
• An ability to carry out functional analysis that helps us understand triggers, enabling us to support our young person more effectively.
• An increased knowledge about how we devise strategies to promote positive behaviour.
• An ability to apply active calming and de-escalation strategies to support a child or young person through a crisis.
• An increased knowledge about understanding aggression, identifying general physiological signs of anger while identifying the common triggers.
• An increased knowledge about how feelings drive behaviour.
• An ability to recognise the levels of anger in people.
• An ability to learn appropriate interventions for each level of anger, including actions to avoid being restrained or attacked.
• An increased knowledge about ways to manage your own emotions.
• An increased knowledge about the development of your evidenced-based skills in de-escalation and diffusion techniques.
• An ability to gain practical resources and strategies for effectively evidencing your therapeutic engagement using PACE and De-escalation skills, enabling you to effectively showcase your work to Ofsted and other partner agencies