SDS Core Skills and Core Processes

3 Core Skills

• Accurate Empathy
• Active Listening
• Summarising / Prompting Action

3 Generic Processes

• Enquiry Mode
• The Choice Model
• Prompting Required Behaviour

9 Core Processes

1. Conduct morning check-in
2. Implement an Individual Support Plan for a specific young person (using the Choice Model)
3. Implement the Reset Process with a student whose behaviour doesn't align with school values (using the Choice Model)
4. Use Enquiry Mode with a young person who isn't dysregulated (lagging skills)
5. Use Enquiry Mode with a young person who is dysregulated
6. Use Enquiry Mode to facilitate a restorative justice conversation
7. Redirect a young person whose behaviour doesn't align with school values
8. Conduct a return-to-school process for a student returning from suspension
9. Implement the Verbal De-escalation process with a highly dysregulated young person

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