Next, unless you’re using medicine, de-escalation is not something you do “to” a person. Non-coercive de-escalation is recognizing, creating, and maintaining conditions that allow someone to de-escalate their own emotions.2 Realistic de-escalation recognizes that not everybody is able or willing to de-escalate.
And, although de-escalation training is aimed at reducing the number of police shootings involving people with mental illness “behaving dangerously,” realistic de-escalation recognizes that de-escalation attempts may be unreasonable precisely because of dangerousness or mental illness.
Although it is for LEOs, it has information we may very well learn and use.
I know the term has been abused, but the more tools you have in you toolbox, the less probability you’ll end up wearing orange rompers courtesy of the local PD.