Exam 10: The Uses of Play in Therapy

_________ play therapy requires the parent to attend training sessions under the supervision of a therapist and to conduct therapy sessions for their children at home.

In art therapy, children who draw huge figures may be __________, while withdrawn, insecure, or depressed children may produce small figures.

The first person to use play in psychoanalytic therapy with children was

Directive approaches to therapy seem to result in more significant improvements than non-directive approaches, such as the relationship approach.

Bibiliotherapy and mutual storytelling are identical to one another.

The child reads a book about a character with problems similar to his or her own, and then discusses the problem with a therapist. This technique is

What are the three conditions that are essential to the success of psychoanalytic therapy? Explain why each condition is difficult to achieve when a therapist is working with a child patient.

Transference refers to the ability of patients in psychoanalytic therapy to speak openly about anything on their minds at a given moment.

Psychologists warn about the danger in _________ children's art, and remind us that one creative work is never enough to tell the whole story about a child's psychological life.