Play Therapy Skills (Basic)
Therapist verbally responds to behavior of the child by stating what is observed
What is Tracking Behavior?
The acronym used for limit setting in CCPT
What is ACT?
This term is used when there is an identifiable pattern or topic that is repeated in the child’s play
What are Play Themes?
The type of documentation that identifies play themes, patterns of play, and significant verbalizations after each therapy session is known as
What are Notes?
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?
Therapist paraphrases the verbal interaction of the child
What is Reflecting Content?
The first step in Landreth’s model of limit setting
What is Acknowledging the Feeling?
A child carefully preparing a feast for the therapist and encouraging them to eat is best described by which theme?
What is Nurturing?
Adlerian Play Therapists use a special limit setting technique of working collaboratively with the child to identify the limit, known as
What is Negotiation?
This theory of play therapy focuses on using charts to measure behaviors over time and see if coping skills are reducing a specific behavior
What is Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy?
Using a 3-step procedure to control unwanted behaviors of reflecting the child’s intention of feeling, setting a definitive limit, and providing an appropriate alternative
What is Limit Setting?
Therapist verbally responds to emotions expressed by child
What is Reflecting the child’s Feeling?
A child enters the playroom and plays sporadically with a few and then returns the toy and seeks out a new one and seems to slowly investigate everything without committing to anything. This can best be described by which theme?
What is Exploratory?
Redirecting a child to sit in a chair in the playroom instead of on one’s lap is an example of what part of child-centered play therapy limit setting
What is Targeting the Alternative?
This theory focuses on identifying the 4 C’s as areas of critical need
What is Jungian?
Therapist notices and verbalizes patterns in the child’s play
What is Reflecting Deeper Meaning?
Sensitively understanding the child from his/her own perspective and validating his/her feelings is a part of which condition of growth?
What is Empathy?
A child hits on the bop bag for a quarter of the session, then angrily takes a big dinosaur and has it smash small animals in the sandbox, then engages in a swordfight with therapist. This can best be described by which theme?
What is Aggression?
This theory uses the limit setting technique of taking a toy away for a short period of time if used inappropriately and then later returning the toy to give the child another chance
What is Adlerian?
This theory harnesses children’s creativity and imagination to facilitate expression through artistic and dramatic mediums
What is Gestalt?
Therapist verbalizes statements to help children experience their own capability and take responsibility for it
What is Returning Responsibility to the Child?
Being real, demonstrating emotional congruence, and modeling acceptance of one’s own behavior is which condition of growth?
What is Genuiness?
An eight-year-old child takes the bottle from a baby doll and curls up in a blanket and quietly rocks on the floor. This can best be described by which theme?
A therapist brings a parent into a room to hug a tantruming dysregulated child. This is an example of what?
What is Therapeutic use of Touch?
This theory focuses on using play as a way to access the collective unconscious and tap into the child’s natural ability to heal
What is Jungian?