What are the basic skills for working with children?
What will be an ideal response?
- Invitational skills: nonverbal skills such as meeting child at their physical level, giving explanation and details of the helping process
- Reflecting skills: encouragers, tracking, reflecting content and feelings, facilitating relationship responses
- Advanced reflecting skills: Reflecting meaning and meta-communicating
- Challenging skills: Limit setting, confrontation, facilitating decision making/returning responsibility response
- Goal Setting Skills: Parent consultations, sharing power.
- Change techniques: Self-esteem building responses, encouragers, brainstorming, discussion, mutual storytelling, puppet play, art techniques, modeling (please see 308 for complete list).
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In order to manage transference, a helper may
A. help the client focus on more self-awareness. B. should disclose personal feelings about the client. C. explore carefully the source of these feelings. D. both A and C.
The results of the Preschool ADHD Treatment Study (PATS) indicated which of the following?
a. Low doses of methylphenidate were most effective in treating ADHD. b. Stimulants are not effective for treating preschoolers with ADHD. c. Almost all preschoolers experienced complete remission of symptoms when treated with stimulants for ADHD. d. Most children who took medication did not experience complete symptom remission and many experienced significant side effects.
The section of the brain more focused on the external environment and on ‘rational' functions is ______.
A. forebrain B. hindbrain C. midbrain D. no section of the brain is focused on these functions
Treatment planning _____
a. Gives clients a clear direction for next steps, goals, and expected path for the intervention b. Is appropriate only in clinical settings c. Is determined by the counselor, because s/he is the expert d. All of the above