Behaviorism
This skill involves reinforcing successive approximations toward achievement of a desired response
What is Shaping?
This ball can be tossed between persons to facilitate discussion of emotions and emotional identification skills
What is a Feelings Thumbball?
This assessment tool allows children to nonverbally show how strongly they believe or identify with a specific statement
What are Feelings Circles?
A therapist invites a child into a playroom stocked with toys and patiently waits for the child to choose an activity gently redirecting the child to take the lead of the relationship
Who is a Child Centered Play Therapist?
This controversial psychologist cautioned demonstrated that fears and anxiety can be conditioned into children
Who is John B. Watson?
This skill often involves use of puppets or dolls to demonstrate a problem situation and skills to cope with it
What is modeling?
This intervention involves using a red and green piece of paper to invite a child to move forward or stop and increases self-control
What is Red Light, Green Light?
Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy treatment planning begins with this analysis of the child's behavior
What is the cognitive conceptualization?
A therapist invites a child into a room well balanced with miniatures and instructs the child to build a world out of the miniatures and patiently observes and interprets the symbolic meaning within the world
Who is a Jungian analytical play therapist?
This play therapist researched strategies for merging cognitive therapy techniques and play therapy for use with preschool age children
Who is Susan Knell?
This behavioral technique involves rewarding a desired behavior to encourage more of that behavior
What is operant conditioning?
This intervention involves withdrawing reinforcement and ignoring a behavior that may have been previously reinforced until it is extinguished
What is extinction?
In Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy this person directs the treatment
Who is the therapist?
A therapist listens intently to a child describe losing her grandmother, then instructs the child to identify and rank feeling using a feelings thermometer, and then engages the child in reading a book where the main character has a grandmother that died
What is a Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapist?
This play therapist has edited the book Blending Play Therapy with Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
Who is Athena Drewes?
This is the general term for modifying behavior by controlling environmental consequences and responses to that behavior (2 words)
What is contingency management?
This three pronged tool helps identify the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors
What is the Cognitive Triangle?
This metaphor can be used to help children think of treatment goals as a process of self-transformation
What is a butterfly?
A therapist welcomes a child to sit comfortably in between her parents and engages the family in blowing a cotton ball back and forth and then applying lotion to each other
Who is a Theraplay Therapist?
This psychologist developed the theory of operant conditioning, the concept that behaviors can be reinforced by our environment
Who is BF Skinner?
These acronyms are generally used to analyze a child's behavior to understand what may be triggering and or reinforcing it
What is the ABC or ABCDEF acronym?
In Cognitive-Behavioral Play Therapy treatment interventions can be targeted towards all three of these
What are the child, the parents, and the environment?
This treatment plan technique involves dividing a sandtray in half and creating a tray of the problem and the goal
What is the Wishing Well sandtray?
A therapist hands a child a lump of clay, has the child mold the clay into a shape with his eyes closed, and then engages the child in a dialogue to identify connections and meaning between the molded clay and himself
Who is a Gestalt Play Therapist?
This psychologist expanded behavioralism to include social learning theory ways of learning through observation of others
Who was Albert Bandura?