Match the Personality Characteristics of Play Therapists with Descriptors

question 4

Multiple Choice

Match the personality characteristics of play therapists with descriptors.
-Patient

• A) Accepts and adapts to the unexpected with an attitude of willingness to be receptive to the new
• B) Accepts the child's choice to play or not to play, to talk or not to talk. The child does not need to change or behave in any particular way to receive the therapist's acceptance
• C) Admits to being vulnerable and being inaccurate in personal perceptions at times
• D) Considers and relates to children on the basis of their own merit, who they are rather than who they have been described to be
• E) Does not need facts or answers about a child and is content with the process of not knowing what a child's behavior should mean
• F) Is loving and compassionate
• G) Recognizes and accepts personal limitations without any sense of threat to feelings of adequacy
• H) Responds to the child as a person who is capable of being more than he or she is at the moment
• I) Should be able to appreciate the humor in what the child experiences
• J) Waits with eager expectancy for the child to come forth at the child's own pace

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Definitions:

Primary Appraisal

The initial process by which an individual evaluates the significance of a situation or event as a potential threat, challenge, or harm to their wellbeing.

Alarm Stage

The first stage of the general adaptation syndrome, in which the person experiences a burst of energy that aids in dealing with the stressful situation.

Resistance Stage

The second phase of the general adaptation syndrome, where the body adapts to and resists stressors with increased performance of various defensive mechanisms.

Selye's GAS

A theory proposed by Hans Selye that describes the body's physiological response to stress in three stages: alarm reaction, resistance, and exhaustion.