Crisis De-escalation
Across
- 3. an individual is actively suicidal and engages in life threatening or criminal behavior directed at police to elicit use of lethal force
- 6. Non-verbal communication
- 8. Willingness to engage and participate in activities
- 11. can potentially be improved with clinical intervention
- 12. Any situation in which a person’s perceived ability to cope is exceeded
- 14. Individual plans attacks ahead of time
- 18. Person is cooperative
- 19. Unwillingness to go to jail, person may be on parole or probation
- 20. A set of techniques and interventions that can help a person in crisis regain control over emotional reactions as well as reduce violent or disruptive behavior
Down
- 1. Touch
- 2. Person experiences a conflict and starts to escalate
- 4. Extremes in behaviors due to mental illness or substance abuse
- 5. Person focuses on the conflict
- 7. Extremes in behaviors due to an underlying medicalcondition. Severe pain can also cause a person to escalate intoa crisis state.
- 9. Person is out of control and exhibits severe behaviors
- 10. Suicide attempt that appears ambivalent but was not a tactic to elicit police response.
- 13. cannot be changed with clinical intervention
- 15. Personal space
- 16. Person is unfocused and upset
- 17. Can be social, physical, psychological or environmental