When Behaviour Seems To Come Out Of Nowhere: Understanding Stress Stacking

About this episode

This episode explores how stress stacking can lead to unexpected behavioural outbursts in pupils and emphasizes the importance of understanding underlying causes.

When a pupil explodes over something small, it can look like their behaviour came out of nowhere. But what if that “tiny trigger” wasn’t really the cause - just the final bit of pressure they could no longer cope with? In this episode, you’ll learn how stress stacking affects dysregulated behaviour, why looking for one simple trigger can lead schools down the wrong path, and how to ask better questions after an incident so support is matched to the pupil’s real needs. You’ll also hear a pract...

People in this episode

Hosts: Simon Currigan, Emma Shackleton

Topics covered

• stress stacking
• dysregulated behaviour
• pupil support
• behaviour triggers
• educational strategies

Keywords

• stress stacking
• behaviour triggers
• dysregulated behaviour
• pupil support
• educational strategies

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