Theories
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Play & Development
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100

This theory focuses on returning responsibility to the child and allowing them to play out what they need to with as little direction from the therapist as possible.

What is Child-Centered Play Therapy

100

According to APT, how many theories are considered seminal and historically significant?

What is 10?

100

"You are putting that right there" is an example of what type of CCPT response?

What is tracking?

100

The pre-frontal cortex is about done developing around what age?

What is 25 to 30?

100
How many Therapeutic Powers of Play are there?

What is 20?

200

This theory focuses on identifying the 4 C’s as areas of critical need for a child. 

Adlerian Play Therapy

200

This psychoanalyst was one of the first to use play as a tool to understand children's unconscious thoughts.

Who is Sigmund Freud? 

200

_________ are a coherent metaphor from which the child communicates the meaning they attribute to experience or worldview.

What are themes?

200

According to Dr. Stuart Brown, there are eight different ___________ that outline how adults engage in play. 

What is Play Personalities?

200

The intentional use of various theories to meet the need of the child is called ____________.

What is Prescriptive Play Therapy?

300

This theory focuses on using play as a way to access the collective unconscious and tap into the child’s natural ability to heal.

Jungian Play Therapy

300

Who is the author of "Dibs in Search of Self", known for being the first to adapt Carl Rogers approach to working with children, which was called non-directive play therapy?

Who is Virgina Axline?

300

Therapists should avoid this when responding to children in CCPT, as this could disrupt the child's flow.

What is asking questions?

300

Play therapy can be a both "_____ - _____" approach or a "______ - ______" approach, allowing play therapists to adapt treatment to meet the child where they are at developmentally, emotionally, and neurobiologicially.

What is "bottom up" or "top down"

300

Limits in play therapy provide this for the child.

What is physical and emotional safety.

400

Ann Jernberg, alongside Phyllis Booth, are credited with developing this playful approach in the 1970s.

What is Theraplay

400

What year was the Association for Play Therapy Founded?

What is 1982?

400

The acronym used for limit setting in CCPT.

What is A-C-T?

400

Name the two types of memory that play therapists (or any therapist) will work with. 

What is implicit and explicit memory?

400

According to the APT credentialing standards, _______ hours of play therapy specific education is required for both the RPT or SB-RPT. 

What is 150?

500

This approach of play therapy involves an in-depth assessment of the child and their systems and advocating for their needs inside and outside of the therapy room.

Ecosystemic

500

The Association for Play Therapy was founded by these two individuals.

Who is Charles Schaefer and Kevin O'Connor.

500

Effective CCPT responses facilitate this and return responsibility to the child. 

What is decision making?

500

Name Dr. Bruce Perry's sequence of engagement in order, nick named "The 3 R's".

What is regulate, relate, reason?
500

Play Therapy is more about "____ _____" rather than "doing with".

What is "being with"?