You Decide You Want to Change Intervention Approaches

question 3

Multiple Choice

You decide you want to change intervention approaches. You want to try an approach that is therapist directed, administered in the child's natural environment, and uses sensory input to organize the child's arousal level. Which of the following best reflects this intervention?

• A) Ayres sensory integration
• B) Sensory-based interventions
• C) Zones of regulation
• D) The alert program

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Definitions:

Preconscious

The part of the mind containing contents that are not in immediate awareness but can be accessed easily.

Reality Principle

A psychoanalytic concept referring to the capacity of the mind to assess the external world and act upon it appropriately, as opposed to acting on the pleasure principle.

Pleasure Principle

A psychoanalytic concept that describes people's instinctual seeking of pleasure and avoidance of pain to satisfy biological and psychological needs.

Ego

A part of the psyche that mediates between the conscious, the unconscious, and the reality by deploying defense mechanisms.