Restorative breaks are used to help children cope with a generalized rising stress level or mood-dysregulated state. Breaks are a positive and constructive part of a …
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Settled Scales
Use any of these scales, together with the Calm and Settled Visual in the section on Taking a Break Comprehension Guide to help students determine if they are settled …
Taking a Break: Comprehension Guide
This comprehension guide is intended to improve student comprehension of restorative breaks (https://kevinplummerphd.com/restorative-breaks/). See Improving …
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Compassion Fatigue and Resilience With Staff in Therapeutic Program
Almost anyone can learn the methods associated with the Brain Based Therapeutic Intervention Program for Children (BBTIPC), but what people underestimate is how much …
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Options for Creating a Resilience Plan: From Protect to Revitalize
For information about how to use this resource and how to create a resilience plan, refer to the Compassion Fatigue Resilience Guide, including the Resilience Plan …
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Restorative Breaks
A restorative break can be used to help children who are perseverating on or “stuck” on a particular problem and it can be used to cope with a generalized rising …
Minimizing Compassion Fatigue
Strengths and Protective Factors for Minimizing Compassion Fatigue Compassion fatigue is a stress condition with stress responses falling into two broad categories, …
Important Things to Remember About Restorative Breaks
Structured breaks are used to restore a productive mood. They are used to restore diminished tolerance and to provide relief within difficult tasks. They are also used …
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When to Use Breaks, Think Time and the Safe Room
Students in therapeutic programs are frequently in various stages of de-escalation, because they experience high levels of mood variability and they are easily …
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Break Flow Chart
Break, Think Time, Safe Room Flow Chart This is a flow cart that supports teachers in determining how and when to use breaks. Restorative break is a positive and …
Settling Routines
Settling breaks are used when children need to regroup after becoming more highly agitated, or in reaction to the student’s inability to restore tolerance and …