Restraint Reduction
Reduce incidents of restraint across your institution.
Pivotal provide cutting edge training tailored to your institution. Our trainers come to you. Sample agendas are available on request. We don't 'train and run', we build sustainable practice that works for the long term. All our training can be booked with coaching & mentoring.
It has been my experience that professionals often get things the wrong way round. They only become interested in why a person needs to 'lash out' after they have coped with the realisation that he needs restraining. If we could understand why and what pressure was building up before it blew the safety valve, perhaps we could help him to learn how to let it out gently.
A. J Davison, Pivotal Trainer
This active one day course is delivered at your site, tailored to your needs and comes with a 10% discount on our new Advanced Behaviour Management Online Course so that practice is sustained.
Pivotal trainers will show staff how to:
- Reduce number of restraint incidents
- Reduce the intensity of restraint
- Reduce length of individual incidents
- Reduce physical and psycological damage that poorly managed restraint causes
Our Restraint Reduction training may include:
- Transforming the skills of staff working with the most extreme behaviours
- Responding to aggressive and violent behaviours
- Keeping staff and students safe
- Preventing a drama becoming a crisis
- Decelerating incidents from the outset
- Adjusting response styles to suit individuals
- Involving children and young people in the management of their behaviour
- Coaching and mentoring those who struggle to stay in control
- Mapping behaviour for and with young people
- Structuring self reflection
As things stand, whether or not force is necessary is a matter that is determined on a case-by-case basis. This means professionals are being asked to rely on their instincts and to make very fine judgments. The decision is not whether to act or not, but how best to execute your duty of care. Doing nothing is not an option but that doesn't mean if you have to restrain either.
The restraint techniques that are demonstrated and practiced by adults in training sessions look entirely sensible, proportionate and safe. Tick 'fully restraint trained' box. The problem is that we are not being asked to restrain adults (unless you count the scrum for coffee in the staff room at break). Restraining children means that there is a huge disparity in size, strength, weight and height. Techniques that worked in rehearsal play out very differently in practice. Feet leave the floor, children struggle and get into awkward positions, the noise level increases and crowds can gather. Restraining children of any age is a gamble with their safety and your career. Before you roll the dice there are opportunities to mitigate your risk and reduce the need to restrain.
Paul Dix, Lead Trainer
All our training agendas are tailored to your needs and desired outcomes.
Please contact us to discuss how we can tailor this training for your setting