Securicare News – Managing Challenging Behaviour: Don’t Forget to Look After Yourself
Responding to the stress that builds up as a result of responding to challenging behaviour can be challenging in and of itself. Securicare offer McGee’s 5-step model for de-stressing. McGee* (2001) offers practical guidance to overcome this stress guilt in the form of an acronym: GUILT. He says:
Give yourself
Uninterrupted
Indulgent
Leisure and pleasure
Time at least twice a week.
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