Match the Personality Characteristics of Play Therapists with Descriptors

question 10

Multiple Choice

Match the personality characteristics of play therapists with descriptors.
-Being Real, Warmth and Caring, Acceptance, and Sensitive Understanding

• 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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