Match the Personality Characteristics of Play Therapists with Descriptors

question 20

Multiple Choice

Match the personality characteristics of play therapists with descriptors.
-Open-Minded

• 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:

Formula Feedings

The practice of feeding infants and young children milk formula as a substitute for or in addition to breastfeeding.

Breast-milk Feedings

The act of feeding an infant milk directly from the mother's breast or from the mother's expressed milk.

Control Group

In experimental research, the group of participants that does not receive the experimental treatment, serving as a baseline for comparison.

Experimental Treatment

A procedure or intervention applied in a controlled environment to observe its effects on a variable of interest, typically to validate hypotheses in research.