How to Avoid Abusive Care Practices
James Hourihan
05/01/2026
When the culture within a care setting turns sour, the risks to vulnerable individuals escalate dramatically.
When the culture within a care setting turns sour, the risks to vulnerable individuals escalate dramatically.
The classroom dynamic shifts, tension rises, and a student exhibits challenging behaviour. Our immediate instinct might be to stop the behaviour, to manage the situation quickly. But effective de-escalation, the kind that truly supports the student and restores calm, requires more than just a reaction. It demands understanding. Before we can effectively de-escalate, we need to pause and consider: Why is this behaviour happening?
The After-Action Review (AAR) stands as a structured debriefing method, born from military practice and now common in business, designed to dissect what was intended, what transpired, the reasons for any discrepancies, and how future actions can be improved. JL Academy uses an adapted method which includes the principle of “Hot Debriefs” as one of their debriefing models. In this article, we dive a little more into relevant concepts of AARs and Hot Debriefs.
