Life Space Crisis Intervention

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Due to the behavioral difficulties that SIE 7, Emotionally Disturbed students pose to their families as well as their teachers, parents have come to our school seeking help in managing their children's behavior at home. I believe that the following conflict resolution and behavior management program can be extremely useful for both pedagogues and parents alike.
Life Space Crisis Intervention (LSCI) has been proven to be an extremely effective program for crisis intervention and conflict resolution. District 75 has adopted this program as one of the premier programs for helping teachers deal with aggressive and disrespectful behavior. It is within our means to have teachers trained in LSCI and then, in turn, have these trained LSCI teachers give workshops for parents in our after school program.
LSCI is a therapeutic program for using crisis situations as an opportunity for children to learn alternative behavior for their patterns of aggressive, disrespectful, or self-demeaning behavior. LSCI is based in cognitive, behavioral, and social psychology. The original strategy was created by Fritz Redl and David Wineman. William Morse and Nicholas Long then refined that model. It is their book, Life Space Intervention: Talking To Children in Crisis (Long, Fescer & Wood, 2001), which provides the framework for the training.
Children in crisis - whether angry, manipulative, anxious, fearful, or depressed - need skilled and caring teachers and parents who can help them break away from conflict cycles and conduct problems. When managed ineptly, a crisis leads to a devastating cycle of disruptive behavior, hostility, violence and alienation. If a crisis is handled well, it may be able to provide a window of opportunity to learn new ways of thinking, feeling and behaving. LSCI helps both youths and adults learn to disengage from self-defeating patterns and to develop responsible, pro-social values and behavior.
Traditional crisis...