Match the Personality Characteristics of Play Therapists with Descriptors

question 11

Multiple Choice

Match the personality characteristics of play therapists with descriptors.
-Sense of Humor

• 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:

Study Harder

Suggests increasing the intensity or dedication with which one engages in learning activities to achieve better academic or knowledge outcomes.

Negative Reinforcement

A type of reinforcement where a response or behavior is strengthened by stopping, removing, or avoiding a negative outcome or aversive stimulus.

Operant Conditioning

A method of learning that employs rewards and punishments for behavior, which affects the likelihood of that behavior being repeated.

Removing Stimulus

The process of taking away or reducing a particular stimulus in order to decrease a response or behavior.