If you want to prevent crises rather than manage them, then you’ll need to be almost totally proactive — in other words, early — in your approach to helping your students. Once a kid spins is escalating or has already spun out of control, you’re late. Once you’re using restraint and seclusion, you’re very late. We need to get you out of the heat of the moment. In this next video, Dr. Greene describes how to get there, and explains the Sequence of Restraint and Seclusion depicted below.