HMSV 448 final
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- Why do kids not respond to talk therapy?
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children may not have been encouraged or allowed to express their feelings and define their behavior.
children may not have the cognitive development to be able to express their concerns. - Why is it important to teach kids how to understand feelings?
- they are able to better cope with or adjust to problems.
- Why do we use play media?
- the use of toys enables children to transfer anxieties, fears, fantasies, and guilt to objects rather than people.
- How is divorce comparable to death?
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in terms of stress:
Breakup of the home
psychological demands of having 2 homes
lowered standard of living
loss of noncustodial parent(dad)
parental stress
custodial vistitation battles
pressure to take sides
chronic after-shock - What is a common concern for kids about divorce?"
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1. Fear: what will happen to me and who will care for me?
2. Sadness or loss: tearful, show signs of depression, sleeping, and eating disturbances, hope for reconciliation
3. Feelings of responsibility: as parents rely on their children for support, sharing inner most thoughts, feeling and fears, adolescents takes on an adult role
4. loneliness: adults preoccupied with their own needs distance themselves psychologically and physically from their kids
5. rejection: children blame themselves for the divorice, question their own self worth
6. conflicting loyalties: wish to maintain relationship with both parents; parents may compete for their child's attention and love
7. anger: expressed through temper tantrums or verbal attacks. - What are the skills kids need to learn in step families?
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security, belonging, self esteem
expression of feelings
self-care
asertiveness training
problem solving
acceptance - How is the best way kids cope with future losses?
- embody hope?
- What are children ages 6-8 perception of loss?
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understand that death is concerte and irreversible
may fear darkness or being alone
believe spirit still lives
views death in a violent sense
may feel it is contagious
looks for natural explanations
concerns for peers
denies that death happened
fears that other loved ones with die - the grieving process: predictable or short lived?
- predictable
- How do kids react in the disorganized or panic stage?
- withdraw? etc...
- How many stages are in the psychoeducational model?
- 6
- What is primary prevention?
- prevention of a certain behavior and reduction of it afterwards
- what is the strongest developmental predictor of a child's involvement in violence?
- growing up in a violent home
- Grizzly animals with teeth
- perpetrators to children
- domestic animals
- protection, family relationships
- dinosaurs
- represent the past, past history of the child's life
- baby bottle
- themes of regression to an earlier stage of development, a desire for nuturing
- blanket
- a desire for comfort or security
- box
- useful for a child to hide a secret; provide a place to contain emotions or symbolize struggles
- dollhouse
- re-create the family environment
- shark
- an aggressive individual
- What do you do with role play?
- when the kid acts out an event, they can move toward an inner resolution, and then are able to better cope with or adjust to problems
- Whats important about selecting play media?
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should faciliate the relationship b/w the counselor and child
encourage expression of feelings and thoughts
aid the counselor in gaining insight into the child's world - Fantasies kids have during divorce
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- Difference b/w healthy and unhealthy families
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Healthy family:
~ open to others outside the family system
~allowed to go outside system for help when needed
~parents set clear generational boundaries
~recognize stressful situations and handle them appropriately
unhealthy families:
~people compulsively protect feelings
~only certain feelings are ok
~performance is more important that person
~everyone must conform to the strongest person's ideas, values, priroities - Why use toys?
- enables children to transfer anxieites, fears, fantasies, and guilt to objects rather than people/
- Step Families go through stages?
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Five stages:
1. fantasy stage
2. confusion stage
3. coming-together stage
4. conflict stage
5. resolution stage - Emotional skills are Inter or Intra personal?
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- What is the relationship b/w mind and body in a child that is having difficultiesw mentally?
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- when do kids regress?
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age 15-18 dealing with death
divorce