Emotional First Aid & Debriefing

1. Emotional First Aid & Debriefing Learning Experience 12

2. Values in Action • Kindness • Doing things for others without requiring reciprocation

3. SEE the Solution • A mental strategy to deal with conflict and crisis by using a process for decision making in order to help people feel physically and emotionally safe. • SEE begins with the mental mindset of providing Emotion First-Aid

4. SEE the Solution Building Trust Decreasing Fear Reducing Physical and Emotional Injury Preserving the Relationship Emotional First Aid

5. Three Simple Steps to Becoming Effective at Providing Emotional First-Aid Listen • Commit to active listening • Establish rapport • Think about & explore precipitating problems • Ask or use feelings, questions, or reflective statements

6. Three Simple Steps to Becoming Effective at Providing Emotional First-Aid Assess • Determine the severity and immediacy of the crisis • Assess/evaluate potential of physical harm to the person or others

7. Three Simple Steps to Becoming Effective at Providing Emotional First-Aid Implement CCR Steps to Resolution • Start by being non-directive, for people who experience learning difficulties, use distraction • Display empathy • Support and reassure the person • Be collaborative by working together on a resolution plan

8. Debriefing • Means looking back at what may have led to the conflict/ distress and planning for the future in four key areas: • Physiological • Environmental • Situational • Service Culture

9. Self Evaluation – Do you take on any of these roles? • DD Cop • Compliance Agent • Enforcer • Ally DD COP VS

10. Self-Evaluation • Listening • Demonstrating Empathy • Building Rapport • Problem Solving • Offer Guided Choices

11. Exploring Risk Factors • Injury to self • Injury to others • Property damage leading to risk of injury to self or others • Involvement with law enforcement

12. Group Activity Directions • You will each have 3 slips of paper • Write a low risk scenario on one slip, a medium risk scenario on another slip, and a high risk scenario on your last slip. • When you are finished writing, fold them in half and throw them in the bowl. • The scenarios will be mixed up. • Each person will pick three scenarios out of the bowl. MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT HAVE YOUR OWN. • You will then decide which risk level your three scenarios fall under, and attach them to the corresponding poster.

13. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” –Maya Angelou