EPT5-Session5 – Supervision – Center for Experiential Play Therapy

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In EPT, supervision is viewed as a progressive process that builds new skills based on previous skill development.

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As a supervisor, our ethical responsibility is:

To the trainee until the basic skills are developed

To the client first and to the trainee as the secondary concern.

To the trainee so that their skills can be developed.

To the client unless the client refuses to follow the treatment plan.

Which is NOT a purpose of supervision in EPT?

Identifying any counter transference issues that may arise in the play process

Teach the trainee to ask the right questions about the content expressed by the child.

Apply the intake information to the dynamics of the particular case.

Reiterate any basic tenets of the therapeutic model that are not being maintained in the play process.

An EPT trainee is struggling with allowing a child to metaphorically punish her for not cleaning her room. The best approach for the supervisor in EPT would be to:

Ask the trainee what it was like as a child when she was reprimanded for her room.

Ask the trainee what she was feeling as the child reprimanded her in the session.

Ask the trainee to enact that she is being shamed and ridiculed for a messy room.

Any of the above is a possible ways to gain empathy for the child’s play.

Which of the following is NOT a view of the supervision process in EPT?

The supervisor is constantly focusing the trainee on the meaning of the expressions of the child during the play therapy session.

The supervisor is supportive in refining the play responses of the trainee as the trainee is playing the directed play created by the child.

The trainee constantly asks the supervisor where their mistakes are so that the trainee can stop that behavior immediately.

The supervisor gives the meaning of the metaphor expressed by the child so that the trainee can better understand the role she must play in the session.

In EPT, supervision is a process of shaming the trainee into conforming to this model over other forms of play therapy.

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In the DVD of Ethan, the need to be a super hero was expressive of the need:

To answer the Existential question of “Who am I?”

To validate that his life has meaning and a purpose that would give him respect.

That being a “super hero” would give him the power and direction to confront his feelings of rejection and isolation.

All of the above since the meanings of metaphors have different level of depth.

According to EPT, play with the child is the therapeutic intervention that gives the child the capacity to shift meanings so that the child can change their perceptual experiences to have the identity in life to be a regulated and nurturing person.

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The video of the boy indicated the following dynamics except:

This boy felt alienated from his parents.

He did not feel his identity was of any value.

The world was a good place to grow up to be successful.

He sent the message that he needed to be fixed like the guitar.

According to EPT, one of the skills in supervision is the ability to develop an understanding of children’s metaphors so that personal messages of the child can be communicated and acknowledged.

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The play therapist should always align with the client even over any ethical considerations.

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A trainee should have exposure to different models of play therapy before immersing into one specific model.

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A trainee in EPT should believe all but which proposed tenet about play therapy:

Regression should be discouraged because it causes relapses in the child’s progress.

The therapist, when invited, should enter the play experience of the child.

Metaphors are valid expression of the child’s internal emotional experience.

Children possess the capacity to heal themselves when they direct their play process with a play therapist who plays the meaning of the concerns with the child on the issues that need to be confronted.

The trainee that can recognize theme development created by the child as it is initiated during the play therapy process is basically at what phase of skill development in EPT:

The intermediate level of skill development in EPT.

The entry level of skill development in EPT.

The competency level of development in EPT.

Does not need any more supervision of skill development in EPT.

The supervisor has the ultimate responsibility for the client and the supervisee.

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Ethan in the DVD told the therapist about his hurts and pain because:

He is a natural born complainer who wants attention.

He was seeking sympathy from the therapist to control her questions.

He was conveying that he struggles with pain that consumes his internal world.

He wanted the therapist to know he could handle his pain and didn’t need her.

In the DVD, the telephone represented the need to have his parents hear his desperation to be emotionally nurtured and validated in his daily life.

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The research validates that there is a clear correlation between abuse in early childhood and the onset of illnesses later in life

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In EPT, play is the intervention process that conveys dynamics to the child through toys, roles, environments, and animals that becomes part of the child’s play.

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The three general components for success in EPT are expressive play by the child, accurate ways of responding to the child during play, and parents that are psychologically minded and follow the recommendations of the EPT therapist.

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