Play Therapy Skills (Basic)
Therapist verbalizes and narrates the behavior of the child
What is Tracking Behavior?
The acronym used to remember the three step procedure of limit setting in CCPT
What is ACT?
These limits are always in place in the playroom and protect the clinician and the child
What are absolute limits?
Who is Dr. Gary Landreth?
This category of toys is often represented by baby dolls, bottles, strollers, and toy food
What is nurturing?
This skill consists of the therapist paraphrasing the verbal statements of the child
What is Reflecting Content?
The first step in Landreth's model of limit setting
What is Acknowledging the Feeling?
This limits pertain to the process of therapy like the session time and staying in the playroom
What are clinical or structured limits?
This psychologist has written several books on the process and importance of self-compassion
Who is Kristin Neff?
This category of toys is often represented by toys guns, swords, and a bop bag
What are aggressive toys?
Using this 3-step procedure, a therapist controls unwanted behaviors of reflecting the child's intention of feeling, setting a definitive limit, and proving an appropriate alternative
What is Limit Setting?
The enforcement of a consequence after completing the limit setting
What is the Fourth Limit
This limits revolve around the choices and actions of the child and adjust to their behavior
What are reactionary limits?
This contemporary play therapist has emphasized the need for documentation, treatment planning, and evaluative research of child-centered play therapy
Who is Dee Ray?
This category of toys is often represented by puppets, phones, and walkie-talkies
What is communication play?
This skill is when the therapist notices and verbalizes patterns in the child's play
What is Reflecting Deeper Meaning?
This core condition of therapeutic growth is characterized by the therapist being real, demonstrating emotional congruence, and modeling acceptance of one's own behavior
What is Genuineness?
These limits are less prescribed and more personal to therapist
What are relational limits?
This early pioneer of Play Therapy identified core requirements of relationship building with children and her books went on to be foundational of Child-Centered Play Therapy pracitce
Who is Virginia Axline?
Toys in a therapeutic message should send the message ________, not __________
What is that: Toys in a therapeutic message should send the message 'play with me', not 'be careful'?
This skill is when the therapist verbalizes statements to help children experience their own capability and learn from their own choices
What is Returning Responsibility to the Child?
Sensitively responding to the therapist's own emotional suffering with awareness, self-kindness, and connection with human experience
What is Self-Compassion?
Limits are not need until this point
What is until they are needed?
This early pioneer of Play Therapy is credited with popularizing how limits and limit setting ARE the therapy?
Who is Ray Bixler?
A child facilitates this process by repeating a motion again and again such as by bouncing a ball or pour sand back and forth between two buckets
What is self-regulation?