This presentation was part of the 4th Annual Mobile Mental Health Crisis Response Summit
Many adults have experienced frustration in intervening when a young person has emotional dysregulation. Cavitt addresses the importance of calm and compassion although our internal emotional response is heightened by the child’s intensity. Confrontational adults can escalate the child’s behaviors like gasoline on a fire. Becoming a regulation partner for the child can avert a crisis and promote healing.
Objectives:
- Learn how trauma-driven neurological and emotional responses drive dysregulation in children and youth.
- Learn the importance of non-confrontational de-escalation strategies.
- Learn to monitor one’s own emotional response to a young person during a crisis situation in order to become a regulation partner for the young person.
