6. Prepare For Attacks And Use Calming Strategies
This step is going to require extra research and significant planning. At some point things are going to get out of control and you are going to half to calm the situation down. This isn’t going to be natural for everyone, so make sure you plan ahead. Lean to read the signs of these attacks before they explode and figure out strategies you can use to help calm the child down. This will take plenty of practice on your part, but it will build trust over time.
This is going to be one of the hardest steps you take on this list. There isn’t an easy example of how to handle this. Instead, you simply have to train yourself to think on your feet and guide the student out of the darkness that they are falling into. Anxiety leads to defiance, and – well that sounds like a Star Wars quote – but the point is the more effective you are at bringing the student back from that dark place of fear, the easier it will be for them to learn to cope with it.