If you do not allow the use of emergency behavior intervention,
the pre-service training for emergency behavior intervention must
focus on early identification of potential problem behaviors and strategies
and techniques for less restrictive interventions, including the following
curriculum components:
(1) Developing and maintaining an environment that
supports positive and constructive behaviors;
(2) The causes of behaviors potentially harmful to
a child, including aspects of the environment;
(3) Early signs of behaviors that may become dangerous
to a child or others;
(4) Strategies and techniques a child can use to avoid
harmful behaviors;
(5) Teaching a child to use the strategies and techniques
of your agency's de-escalation protocols to avoid harmful behavior,
and supporting the children's efforts to progress into a state of
self-control;
(6) Less restrictive strategies caregivers can use
to intervene in potentially harmful behaviors;
(7) Less restrictive strategies caregivers can use
to work with an oppositional child;
(8) Addressing circumstances when all de-escalation
strategies fail; and
(9) The risks associated with the use of prone or supine
restraints, including positional, compression, or restraint asphyxia.
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