Who Dat?
Jungian Play Therapy Theory
Jugian PLay Therapy Skills
Sandtray
Sandtray Interventions
100

She created the 'World Technique' for children to create their inner world using toy miniatures

Who is Margaret Lowenfield?

100

In this, sometimes unnecessary role, the therapist bridges the lessons presented by the unconscious to the child's conscious understanding of the world

What is the Interpreter?

100

This can be any piece of art that is created within a bound circular shape

What is a Mandala?

100

Sandtray therapists collect these to act as symbolic representations of the child's world

What are miniatures?

100

This Sandtray intervention involves instructing a child to feel the sand medium and describe the feeling

What is sensory processing?

200

He broke away from Freud's original theories to develop concepts such as the archetype and collective unconscious?

Who is Carl Jung?

200

In this role the therapist holds space for the child's emotions and maintains the proces inside the therapeutic window

What is the Container?

200

This Jungian Play Therapy skill involves asking a child to focus in on and expand a specific element of their work

What is amplification of symbol?

200

The bottom of sandtray's are recommended to be painted this color

What is blue?

200

This Sandtray intervention invovles instructing the child to create a world where they feel protected from harm

What is Safe Place exercise?

300

He was the first to combine Jungian Theory and Play Therapy and published his research in Inescapes of the Child's World (1988)

Who is John Allan?

300

This primitave mental image or concept is believed to be inherited through the Collective Unconscious

What is an Archetype

300

This Jungian Skill is often used at the end of Play Therapy sessions to help children reorient to leaving the session

What is grounding?

300

Sandtray's have sides and often lids to further this therapeutic function of psychological processing

What is containment?

300

This therapetuic technique involves recognizing the underlying message in a sandtray and gently communicating it (example: 'seems like…')

What is Intepretation?

400

She combined Lowenfield's technique with Jungian anaylitical theory to develop 'sandplay' as a therapeutic intervention

Who is Dora Kalff?

400

In this role the therapist reflects emotions and narratives of the child's play and stays in the metaphor without judgement

What is the Witness Role?

400

This Jungian Skill involves asking children to produce artwork regularly over time and analyzing it for change

What are Serial Drawings?

400

Scenes created in the sandtray frequently activiate the emotional brain and these type of memories

What are implicit?

400

This processing technique involves asking a child what was going on before the characters were the way they are in the sand scene

What is hypothesizing antecedents?

500

He is credited with publishing recent research on applications of Jungian Play Therapy to children recovering from natural disasters

Who is Eric Green?

500

Jungian play therapists believe that the true healing power of the therapy is here

What is the client or the Self?

500

Jungian Play Therapists analyze this type of projections which may come from child's past experience, curent emotions, or collective unconscious

What is transference?

500

This Greek word is used to describe the sense of sacred space and felt-safety evoked by the sandtray

Temenos

500

Neurobiologically, this occurs when a child's negative memory is triggered while inside a therapeutically safe environoment

What is a Disconfirming Experience?