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Examples of Protective Measures:
Concern Missing skills to practice Protective Measure
Barged past someone and "We want you to have a fun and enjoyable playtime.
knocked them over at the
playground. • Flexible Thinking: I will get a turn in the end. You haven’t yet got the skills needed yet to play with
others in a way that is safe and enjoyable for others.
• Flexible Thinking: I can negotiate to make sure I get a
turn too. While we help you practise the skills needed, you will
need to take your playtime in a way that keeps others
• Impulse Control & Emotional Regulation (tolerance safe and happy. This might be at a different time or in
control): I can tolerate this unpleasant feeling of a different area.
waiting and resist the urge to react to that feeling.
We still want you to enjoy playtime so let's work out
together how to still make sure it is fun for you."
Stayed out until late taking • Flexible Thinking: It would be fun to do this, but the
part in risky but fun negative impact on people who love me is too big. "We want you to have fun.
activities. Whilst we help you to build the skills needed, any
• Time Awareness & Tracking (linked to Working
Memory): I can use strategies to help me stay aware of socialising will need to be either at a supervised
the time and know when to leave. club, here with friends at home or at the houses of
friends whose parents we know will supervise well.
• Impulse Control & Emotional Regulation (tolerance
control): I can resist this urge I am feeling. I can We want you to be happy, so if there are other
manage not to react to this urge and do something activities you think you would enjoy, we will do
helpful instead of acting on the urge. everything we can to arrange them."
Threw remote control and • Flexible Thinking: I know it's unfair to switch TV "It's important that everyone using the TV room gets
spat when peer wouldn’t channels when someone is watching a programme. I to enjoy the programmes they want to watch.
change the TV channel. can negotiate to make sure everyone gets to watch This needs flexibility and tolerance control when the
something they enjoy. programme isn’t what you want.
• Impulse Control & Emotional Regulation We can practise these skills together. In the
(tolerance control): I can tolerate this unpleasant meantime, you will either need to watch TV on your
feeling of waiting until the programme finishes to own, or when an adult is available to supervise if you
turn over the channel and resist the urge to react. want to watch TV with others."
