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  • Management of Aggressive Behavior

    Management of Aggressive Behavior

    Management of Aggressive Behavior
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    Management of Aggressive Behavior: A Comprehensive Guide to Learning How to Recognize, Reduce, Manage, and Control Aggressive Behavior by Roland Ouellette can enable you to recognize and identify signs of aggressive behavior.

    Once properly identified, you may then effectively manage this behavior.

    You can learn ways to manage aggressive individuals and improve your personal safety! This paperback is more than just a book — it is a comprehensive strategy that you can use in virtually every aspect of your life.

    Now that I work back in the prison, I need tools to manage behavior.  Verbal Judo, Cognitive behavior therapy and other tools are used to maintain a safe and secure prison with a minimum of force.

    Management of Aggressive Behavior gives the reader some workable tools to deal with aggressive individuals.

    It works well in a correction setting, but the tools will also work in a school, bar, or workplace.

    Its nice to have tools other than guns to deal with situations.  I have dealt with hundreds of situations involving potential violence where I had to talk to a person, but only one where I had to draw a gun.

    To me that means I should prepare much more in the mental and social skills of aggression than is commonly done.

  • PRN Episode #26 Critical Incident Stress Management

    PRN Episode #26 Critical Incident Stress Management

    PRN Episode #26 Critical Incident Stress Management
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    Preparedness is about making small sacrifices in normal times so that you do not have to make huge sacrifices in times of scarcity (at least in this host’s mind) – its not just about buying beans, bullets, and bandages – it’s also about learning, training, and building capability.

    David has spent a lot of time taking skills and concepts learned in his professional field of emergency management and relating it to his family’s personal preparedness.

    One of those things that relates is knowledge about critical incident stress management.  Critical Incident Stress, and Critical Incident Management is directly related to long term responder performance – and un-managed stress can have debilitating effects on the individual and the group.  In his time in emergency management, Dave has had the opportunity to attend multiple training courses in this area and has seen first hand how this sometimes overlooked skill is very important to dealing with emergencies at all levels.

    In today’s episode David talks about what it is, how to deal with it, its relation to acute stress brought on by the Fight or Flight response, and introduces the concept of Critical Incident Stress Debriefings.  This show won’t make you an expert in this field, but it is a good introduction to something valuable that is rarely considered in the personal preparedness community.

    Now that I went back to corrections, I find I teach classes on this every month.  Critical Incident Stress Management is a big deal, and I imagine it would be have an even bigger impact after a disaster.

    The show is scheduled for Monday at 10pm central time at this link.

    If you cannot listen on Monday, you can always download the podcast for listening at your own leisure.