TechValidate Research on Crisis Prevention Institute

“I’m a licensed psychiatric technician. I have 39 years in forensics and community mental health. I taught Management of Assaultive Behavior for 22 years in the California state hospital system. CPI is more community based and focused on the avoidance of hands-on interventions. CPI fits nicely with the concept of knowing your patients and being able to identify early escalation. CPI meets the objective of reducing physical and mechanical restraint occurrences and the duration thereof. The training encourages dignity and independence of patients.”

“CPI improved staff de-escalation skills, improved overall safety, and has become ingrained in our training.”

“CPI training improved my organization’s HCAHPS score.”

“With the internalization of nonviolent de-escalation, staff are more likely to teach patients. That is, staff verbalize CPI theory and use the concepts to work with patients to develop self-intervention techniques. Used in concert with cognitive behavioral concepts, patients are more equipped to identify, measure, and predict where their behaviors will take them and the responses they might expect from peers, public, and staff.”