In the case of Rosa, describe her presenting problems and the methods the therapist used to treat her.

What will be an ideal response?


Ans: Rosa is a bilingual ten-year-old child suffering from selective mutism since the age of four. Her therapist uses play therapy from a self-psychological perspective, engages Rosa in Spanish in order to establish an empathic relationship, and conceptualizes her role as that of a self-object who will provide idealizing, mirroring, and alter ego self-object functions.

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