Crisis De-Escalation

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Across
  1. 2. Willingness to engage and participate in activities
  2. 4. Severity of peak behaviors subside
  3. 5. Personal space
  4. 6. Extremes in behaviors due to an underlying medical condition. Severe pain can also cause this
  5. 8. Person is out of control and exhibits severe behaviors
  6. 10. Individual plans attacks ahead of time
  7. 11. A person is in crisis or exhibits behaviors consistent with a crisis that warrant a response or intervention
  8. 12. Person experiences a conflict and starts to escalate
  9. 14. Person is cooperative
  10. 15. Any situation in which a person’s perceived ability to cope is exceeded
  11. 17. Tone, volume, cadence of speech
  12. 19. cannot be changed with clinical intervention
  13. 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. 1. can potentially be improved with clinical intervention
  2. 3. is when an individual is actively suicidal and engages in life threatening or criminal behavior directed at police to elicit use of lethal force
  3. 7. Extremes in behaviors due to mental illness or substance abuse
  4. 9. Non-verbal communication
  5. 13. Touch
  6. 16. Person is unfocused and upset
  7. 18. Person focuses on the conflict