Deck 5: Responding to Questions, Requests for Help, and Commands; Role-Play

Question 1

Often, when children ask the therapist a question, the therapist using empathy to identify the motivation for the question is an adequate response.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Which of the following types of child's questions are generally answered?

A) structural-parameters of therapy
B) deeply personal
C) structural-request for direction
D) b and c

Answer 2

A

Question 3

In CCPT, there is a mutual relationship where the therapist may ask questions in order to understand the child and move therapy forward.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

If a child persists in demanding an answer to a deeply personal question about the therapist, the therapist should:

A) Disclose deeply personal information since this may build the therapeutic relationship.
B) Completely ignore the question so as to discourage continued questioning.
C) Inquire as to why the child has such a strong desire to know the information.
D) None of the above.

Question 5

If the child orders the therapist to do something in a bossy tone, the therapist immediately sets a limit to convey the child's responsibility for prosocial behavior.

Question 6

Which of the following is not a form of dramatic role-play common in CCPT?

A) Interactive Role-Play: when a child client invites the therapist to act out a role in her imagined scene
B) Therapist Role-Play: when a child client asks the therapist to play a role or roles while she observes and directs
C) Solitary Role-Play: when the child conducts the scenario on her own
D) Corrective Role-Play: when the therapist acts in ways within the child's role-play in order to provide a corrective experience for an unmet need in the child's development.

Question 7

Because dramatic role-play in CCPT creates an opportunity to become the child's "constant companion," limits cannot be set within a role-play.

Question 8

Which of the following is not a skilled aspect to a child-centered play therapist's work when directed to be a character in a child client's dramatic role-play?

A) Move toward the obvious part of the role, while asking for guidance in how to play it
B) Once basic guidance is given, use some of your acting talent to "bring life" to the role
C) Remain acceptant of the child's changes and corrections throughout role-play
D) Suspend the role-play when needed in order to assert structural elements or limits
E) All the above.

Question 9

If a child-led dramatic role-play seems repetitive to the point that the therapist is bored or worried, the therapist can use her judgment to anticipate where the child needs to go in role-play and assert subtle changes to help the child move forward.

Question 10

A common difficulty for beginning child-centered play therapist can be taking personally such things as pretended scorn or heavily demanding and cantankerous, even ever changing directions.