Questions:
15.1 What are children’s drawings influenced by?
15.2 In play therapy, what does a drawing of a big mouth animal such as an alligator mean?
15.3 Why is drawing an important activity in Play Therapy?
15.4 Why would a child draw borders around their pictures?
16.1 What must a therapist do if they want to maintain the attitude of acceptance believed necessary for full growth in sessions?
16.2 Why must a therapist attempt to be responsive to all types or categories of expressions emanating from the child?
16.3 Why must a therapist respond to both failure and success with the same amount of emotion and with the same tone?
17.1 During play therapy, what was important in working with disturbed children during observation?
17.2 In a case where a mother’s anxiety and stress is put upon a child, how does a therapist counter condition anxiety?
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Answers:
A. Nurturing needs or oral aggression
B. Techniques and symbols taught in school, symbols and metaphors familiar in their familial and cultural environments, psychosocial developmental stage, visual perceptual ability and motor muscular coordination, and availability of particular drawing tools, colors, and paper
C. To contain their anxiety and avoid spill over
D. Most children draw symbolic pictures that replace words, but still convey meaning and affect within the therapeutic relationship, and therefore can be a purposive and fairly direct representational method of understanding the conflicts and issues that troubles a child client.
E. To avoid unintentionally communicating that certain ones have greater value than others
F. Monitor themselves to be certain that their own spontaneous approvals of certain behaviors do not communicate that these are preferred
G. Keep the rules as simple as possible and to always explain the reasons for them honestly
H. So that the child does not feel that the therapist is attracted by success and turned off by failure, and to maintain the attitude of acceptance
I. First encourage the patient with spontaneous play with few rules as possible, and then bring the mother into the playroom, for brief periods at first, and encourage her to prompt the child’s spontaneous play
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