Problem Solving
Social Attachment
Play Therapy
Theorists
Vocab
100

Ability to bring isolated information together to come up with the correct solution.

Convergent Problem-Solving

100

This kid of attachment creates children that resemble their parents in self-awareness and self-confidence.

Close Attachment

100

A way for children to talk about the past and how they felt about it, as well as expressing needs and problems that confront them.

Storytelling

100

Creator of the attachment test the Strange Situation

Mary Ainsworth

100

Earliest forms of problem solving of a sensory and physical nature and the child's earliest concepts of consistent action patterns.

Scheme

200

Ability to be unconventional and consider a variety of possible solutions.

Divergent Problem-Solving

200

An attachment that creates anxious and unengaged in social play.

Insecure Attachment

200

Use of creation to improve and enhance physical, mental, and artistic expression help people resolve conflict and deal effectively with their problems.

Art Therapy

200

who was the first to recognize play as a childhood equivalent of free association.

Melanie Klein

200

When children start to become literate long before they are actually able to read and write.

Emergent Literacy

300

Helps to develop convergent and divergent problem-solving skills.

Objective Play

300

Test that has toys and an unfamiliar adult, then had the parents leave the room to test attachment.

Stranger Situation

300

Therapy approach that uses toys to produce free association for children because of their lack of self motivation.

Psychoanalytical approach

300

Who outline the eight basic principles of the nondirective therapy.

Virigina Axline

300

Characterized in nonliteral behaviors within the context of social interactions.

Social Play

400

Ability to transform objects and situations while still understanding their original identities.

Decentration

400

A good way to teach self-control and read moods from facial expressions.

Parent-Child Physical Play

400

What therapy approach puts emphasis on the quality of the interaction between the therapist and the child.

Relationship Approach

400

Who developed the Play Observation Scale.

Kenneth Rubin

400

Systematic use of theoretical model to establish interpersonal process where trained play therapists use therapeutic powers of play to help clients prevent or resolve psychological difficulties.

Play Therapy

500

Play that does best in problem solving when accompanied with make-believe play.

Free-Play

500

Used to study children's behavior when they play and to identify children who could be at risk in terms of social development.

Play Observation Scale

500

Approach that emphasizes shorter, less frequent treatment with specific goals. Focusing on present realities and heavy symbolic interpretation.

Psychodynamic approach

500

Who realized that play materials help children separate themselves from concrete reality and distinguish between actual objects and what they are intended to represent.

Lev Vygotsky

500

essential characteristic of psychoanalysis in which patients put into words their innermost thoughts and feelings.

Free Association

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