This is a commonlly used term in Social Work practice. It is used as an anger management tool to remove tension between two participants in a conflictual relationship or intervention. A cooling off period is experienced and then the potential for further communication is invited
De-escalation refers to behavior that is intended to escape the escalation of commitment bias. Since escalation of commitment often has the tenets of escalation of conflict, it can also refer to approaches in conflict resolution. This often involves techniques such as taking a time-out, and deflecting the conversation to individuals in the group who are less passionately involved.
Escalation — is the phenomenon of something getting more intense step by step, for example a quarrel, or, notably, a war between states possessing weapons of mass destruction. Compare to escalator, a device that lifts something to a higher level. While the… … Wikipedia
Escalation — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Escalation Título Escalation Ficha técnica Dirección Roberto Faenza Guión Giorgio Giovannini según relato de Roberto Faenza Música … Wikipedia Español
Escalation of commitment — was first described by Barry M. Staw in his 1976 paper, Knee deep in the big muddy: A study of escalating commitment to a chosen course of action .[1] More recently the term sunk cost fallacy has been used to describe the phenomenon where people… … Wikipedia
escalation clause — USA escalation clause, Also known as a stop clause or participation clause. In a commercial lease, a provision that requires the tenant to pay its pro rata share of increases in building costs, such as real estate taxes and operating expenses.… … Law dictionary
escalation — index boom (increase), boom (prosperity), growth (increase), inflation (increase) … Law dictionary
escalation clause — UK US noun [C] COMMERCE, LAW ► ESCALATOR CLAUSE(Cf. ↑escalator clause) … Financial and business terms
escalation — /eskə leiʃn/, it. /eska leʃon/ s. ingl. (propr. scalata ), usato in ital. al femm. [intensificazione brusca, spec. di fenomeni negativi: e. di paura, della violenza ] ▶◀ aumento, crescendo, crescita, incremento, spirale. ↓ progressione.… … Enciclopedia Italiana
escalation — derived noun from ESCALATE (Cf. escalate); in the figurative sense it is from 1938, in reference to the battleship arms race among global military powers … Etymology dictionary
escalation — /eskaˈleʃʃon, ingl. ˌɛskəˈleɪʃən/ [vc. ingl., dal verbo to escalate «intensificare», a sua volta da escalade «ascesa, scalata»] s. f. inv. aumento progressivo, intensificazione, incremento, crescita, progressione, spirale, crescendo CONTR.… … Sinonimi e Contrari. Terza edizione
escalation — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ dramatic, major, serious ▪ rapid ▪ gradual ▪ further ▪ military … Collocations dictionary
escalation — escalate es‧ca‧late [ˈeskəleɪt] verb [intransitive] if amounts, prices etc escalate, they increase: • They saw costs escalating and sales slumping as the effect of rising oil prices hit the company. escalation noun [uncountable] : • The rapid… … Financial and business terms
