How RA Crisis Management Skills Reduced Reported Behavioral Incidents (Unrestrained Ep. 71)

In a college dormitory environment, RA (resident advisor) crisis management skills can prove significant in decreasing the incidence of behavioral incidents serious enough to warrant reporting. (Check out our blog post about this interview: https://www.crisisprevention.com/Blog/How-RA-Crisis-Management-Skills-Reduced-Reported-B)

Since resident advisors are often the first point of contact for residents who need support or encounter a crisis situation on a college campus, their expertise in the use of skills like verbal de-escalation can be the critical difference in the diffusion of behavioral crises—and the increase of campus dorm safety.

Our guest on episode 71 of Unrestrained, a CPI podcast, is Dr. Ernest Solar, Assistant Professor of Special Education and Literacy at Mount St. Mary’s University of Emmitsburg, Maryland. Dr. Solar, a CPI Certified Instructor familiar with the merits of behavioral intervention skills including verbal de-escalation, suggested that Mount St. Mary’s resident advisor program could be strengthened by the inclusion of CPI’s Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training.

In our interview, you’ll hear about the results of a scientific study conducted by the professor that shows how, over a period of four years, the number of referrals of behavioral incidents serious enough to require reporting to the Office of Resident life dropped by 65%.

Highlights of my interview with Dr. Solar include:
What a student is really doing when they’re acting out. 4:00
Why Dr. Solar chose CPI’s Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training for his teacher candidates. 5:28
Why effective teaching depends on recognizing students’ behavioral patterns. 8:40
How Mount St. Mary’s decided to provide their dorm RAs Nonviolent Crisis Intervention® training. 13:18
Why role-playing exercises in CPI training is so valuable for RAs. 15:36
The role of RA’s in the dorms and likely crisis situations which may occur. 20:20
How Dr. Solar’s mixed method study that shows the effectiveness of CPI training was designed—and the results it disclosed. 22:40

Further Listening
If you enjoyed Dr. Solar’s interview, check out Episode 46 of Unrestrained, a CPI podcast, features Dr. Reece Peterson. In the interview, Dr. Peterson discusses his journal article A Review of Crisis Intervention Training Programs for Schools (Couvillon, Peterson, Ryan, Scheuremann, Stegall, 2010), and examines issues relating to crisis intervention training in the school setting including legal initiatives, standardization of training, and the vital importance of fidelity of training across all layers of a school’s organizational structure.

https://www.crisisprevention.com/Blog/November-2017/Unrestrained-Episode-46-Reece-Peterson
A Review of Crisis Intervention Training Programs for Schools

Show Host: Terry Vittone

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