Crisis Communication Research Paper

Principle: Employees who adjust their verbal and nonverbal communication to respond to the identified probable motive of the assault are more likely to achieve the desired outcome. A reduction in assaultive behavior is a desired outcome.

Key question: When I am responding to a person who is threatening to injure, am I using crisis communication, both verbal and nonverbal, to decrease the threat?

Crisis communication is the main intervention for assisting students in the de-escalation process, therefore reducing the risk of assaultive behavior while promoting the display of safe behavior. Crisis communication is ongoing, thus appropriate to reasonable force. Crisis communication is the only necessary and reasonable response to simple assault,