Play Therapy Continuing Education Test For

APTE-LEARNING CENTER

Play Therapy Continuing Education Test for:

A HANDBOOK OF PLAY THERAPY WITH AGGRESSIVE CHILDREN

General Information

Citation:David A. Crenshaw and John B. Mordock (2005: Northvale, NJ: Jason Aronson, Inc.)

Format:Book

# Pages:312

# Credit Hours:8

%Pass:80%

Test Fee:$80

Instructions:

BEFORE printing, FIRST type your Identification and Test responses in the spaces provided below.
Click on only one response for each question. If you click on more than one response or fail to respond to any question, the question will be scored as incorrect.
Finally print and mail this completed test form with processing fee payment for scoring to (or, if you have questions, contact): Carol Guerrero, E-LearningCenter, Association for Play Therapy, 3198 Willow Avenue, Suite 110, Clovis, CA93612USA, (559) 294-2128 ext 1,

Learning Objectives:

Based on the content of the workshop, I am able to:

1.List at least three specific anger modulation strategies.

2.Describe three specific ways to counter devaluation.

3.List three specific strategies to address the hidden losses suffered by many aggressive and violent children.

4.Explain clinical considerations regarding contained trauma re-enactments.

5.Discuss common countertransference feelings aroused in work with aggressive children.

6.List the two tracks of the Play Therapy Decision Grid.

7.Use techniques to access the inner world of the child.

8.Describe at least 5 specific strategies to work through termination issues.

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TEST

Only at puberty do self-examination and introspection become possible.

a. True

b. False

Play therapy is often the initial treatment of choice for chronically maltreated children.

a. True

b. False

3.Children whose inner and outer realities are confused, who are impulse-ridden, and who are seriously disorganized by their own strong feelings are able to make good use of problem-focused discussions.

a. True

b. False

4.The wishes and needs the child reveals through actions, play, or dreams or left untouched until an alliance is securely formed.

a. True

b. False

5.Forming an alliance with aggressive kids can be delayed or diverted by attending to their physical complaints.

a. True

b. False

6.Cognitive distortions, particularly of self-blame and self-contempt, need to be addressed in order to repair the sense of self of many aggressive children.

a. True

b. False

The Play Therapy Decision Grid helps the therapist decide on a therapeutic orientation.

a. True

b. False

Focusing early in treatment on understanding reasons for children’s anger can impede the task of making a therapeutic alliance.

a. True

b. False

Limit setting often results in communicating the hidden violent fantasies and when fantasies are revealed, they are more likely to be acted upon.

a. True

b. False

Adoption fantasies occur only in children in out-of-home placement.

a. True

b. False

Therapists with strong rescue fantasies and who take pride in being good parents are especially prone to counter-transference problems.

a. True

b. False

Children working within the Coping track of the Play Therapy Decision Grid may develop sufficient strengths to work directly on trauma issues as therapy progresses.

a. True

b. False

Feeding and healing metaphors symbolize dependency on the therapist.

a. True

b. False

Children who cannot express feelings through playacting or drawing can be encouraged to do so initially through action play.

a. True

b. False

Encouraging children to express their violent fantasies in detail increases their acting out.

a. True

b. False

Trauma victims need to reset the frozen body state associated with the trauma to a position of safety and control.

a. True

b. False

Masking symbols can be defined as symbols needed to work through turbid emotions while maintaining distance from them.

a. True

b. False

According to social learning theorists efforts to get children to hit a dummy or Bobo doll contribute to decreased aggression.

a. True

b. False

Children lacking imaginative play also lack mature defenses against anxiety.

a. True

b. False

The “mature defenses can be employed to fend off anxiety without adversely affecting others.

a. True

b. False

Grandiosity can shield the child from loss of identity and fear of merging.

a. True

b. False

Repression and projection are considered by Sarnoff to be “mechanisms of restraint.”

a. True

b. False

When the child has developed some mature defenses but periodically uses a less mature defense that is maladaptive, the play therapist can begin to interpret the defense of the child.

a. True

b. False

Aggressive children typically become more self-aware in therapy when active efforts are made to clarify and interpret the transference relationship.

a. True

b. False

Interpretations of universal feelings are those in which the therapist attempts to normalize the feelings a child might have about a situation such as beginning therapy.

a. True

b. False

Empathetic interpretations help children to understand the feelings of the therapist.

a. True

b. False

Dynamic interpretations tend to be given in the early stages of therapy.

a. True

b. False

Attention statements are directed at coincidences the child has not noticed or paradoxes revealed.

a. True

b. False

Direct attempts to interpret defenses are experienced by most children as calming and supportive.

a. True

b. False

Interpretations offered in a tentative and collaborative fashion can contribute significantly to the healing process.

a. True

b. False

Children need to realize that many of the feelings they have about the therapist are directed toward a fantasy person and not a real one.

a. True

b. False

Often children incorporate the externalizations of a parent.

a. True

b. False

Children in normal latency have left behind the world of make-believe play in the macrosphere for play acting in the microsphere.

a. True

b. False

Implicit memories can by triggered by any reminder of the event, including sensory cues such as sounds, sights or smells.

a. True

b. False

If certain reminders trigger explicit memories, the person will not have the experience of remembering something that happened in the past, but of reliving it in the present.

a. True

b. False

From an early age, males receive cultural messages that invite binding and compartmentalization.

a. True

b. False

“Learned voicelessness” is a predictable consequence of trauma, violence, and cultural oppression.

a. True

b. False

Among abused children, expressive language ability differentiated more aggressive versus less aggressive children.

a. True

b. False

Play therapists should not use empowerment play to help children modulate the expression of feelings.

a. True

b. False

Stimuli similar to or associated with traumatic events or screen memories can immediate activate the higher cortical centers of the brain.

a. True

b. False

The secrecy surrounding physical and sexual abuse often promotes a “silent bond” between the child and perpetrator, especially in cases of sexual abuse.

a. True

b. False

The play therapist should never interrupt posttraumatic play.

a. True

b. False

Play therapists uncertain about how to proceed with specific cases should seek consultation in which they can discuss the child in depth and the child’s readiness for exploratory work.

a. True

b. False

When therapy is a “safe place” the therapy tends to move quicker.

a. True

b. False

About the age of 12, children’s views about the mysteries of death for the first time begin to approach those of adults.

a. True

b. False

The natural protective instincts of adults lead them to shield children from the emotional impact of life’s inevitable losses, not realizing that embracing and expressing grief is essential to the healing process.

a. True

b. False

Securely attached children more easily separate from loved ones, whether the separation is caused by distance or death.

a. True

b. False

When a child becomes overwhelmed by taxing events in everyday life, the Invitational track should be considered.

a. True

b. False

Children must move past violent play because the play not only masks helpless feelings but also helps the child to identify with the aggressor.

a. True

b. False

Because the bond with the therapist is usually forged after relentless struggle, the termination process is usually not hard for the therapist.

a. True

b. False

One key component of termination is making children aware of their gains and helping them take ownership of the gains.

a. True

b. False

The opportunities for growth and further work on prior losses are an integral part of the termination phase.

a. True

b. False

APT E-LEARNING CENTER

Home Study Evaluation Form for:

Book Title:A HANDBOOK OF PLAY THERAPY WITH AGGRESSIVE CHILDREN

Instructions:

Please indicate your rating of the following statements by circling the appropriate number for each statement.
Return completed form to APT 559-294-2129(fax), or 3198 Willow Avenue, Suite 110, Clovis, CA 93612.

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Learning Objectives: Agree Disagree

Based on the content of the workshop, I am able to:

1. List at least three specific anger modulation strategies.54321

2. Describe three specific ways to counter devaluation.54321

3. List three specific strategies to address the hidden losses

suffered by many aggressive and violent children.54321

4. Explain clinical considerations regarding contained trauma

re-enactments.54321

5. Discuss common countertransference feelings aroused in

work with aggressive children. 5432 1

6. List the two tracks of the Play Therapy Decision Grid.5432 1

7. Use techniques to access the inner world of the child.54321

8. Describe at least 5 specific strategies to work through

termination issues.54321

Content / Relevancy:

1. The information presented will enhance my practice.54321

2. The content of this session was relevant to my practice 5432 1

and/or professional expertise.

3. The teaching learning strategies used during this session were

effective for content presented.54321

4. This program is appropriate to my education, experience,

and skills level.54321

5. Cultural, racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, and gender

differences were considered.54321

6. I would recommend this program to others. 54321

7. This activity was free of commercial bias.54321

8. How much did you learn as a result of this CE program? a great deal some very little

9. Overall Rating: This session met or exceed my expectations54321

Participant Information:

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