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Clinical Interventions with Children in Divorce/Separation Scenarios

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1.  During the first two years post-divorce, children typically experience high levels of distress. Following this initial period, their distress: Tends to increase Tends to decrease Remains stable Disappears

2.  All of the following have been show to potentially make divorce psychologically harder for children EXCEPT: Moving schools Financial stress of parents Scheduling/routine adjustments The presence of play equipment at home

3.  At what age would skill regression (bathroom, sleep, eating) be a typical response to parental divorce? 18+ 2-14 years old 2-4 years old 14-16 years old

4.  High conflict divorce is characterized by which of the following factors: Ongoing, unceasing litigation or court involvement Peaceful cooperative disagreements Child custody being awarded to one parent solely Difficult children

5.  What is NOT considered a moderator to the negative impacts of parental divorce? Cooperation between parents Positive parental relationships pre-divorce Goodness of fit between parent/child Personality disorders of one or both parents

6.  When providing psychoeducation on the legal system, a therapist may need to teach a child what common legal terms are. All of the terms below may be commonly taught, EXCEPT: Lawyer/attorney Custody/Visitation Judges/Decision Makers Parental Alienation Syndrome

7.  Child centered play therapy would encourage the therapist to: Follow the child’s lead Lead and direct the play Ask questions consistently throughout the session Have an animal assisted therapy session

8.  Common tools in a play therapy space are all of the below EXCEPT: Emergency vehicles (police cars, ambulances, firetrucks etc.) A doctor’s kit Baby dolls and tools to care for them A pottery wheel

9.  In using the Fair Play approach, a therapist notices the child has been cheating in their game. How might they approach this? Call attention to it, and work with the child to come up with a solution together to make the play more equitable. Storm out of the room and show the child a ‘real’ Ignore it and keep letting the child win by cheating Cheat as well, to make it ‘fair.’

10.  In the Gestalt school of play therapy, a therapist asks a child to complete a kinetic family drawing. Following completion of the drawing, the therapist may: Rip it up and throw it out to show the child’s family is no longer whole. Ask additional therapeutic questions about what was drawn. Add in their own artistic drawings to illustrate what is missing. Do nothing, just place it in the child’s file.

11.  In Synergistic Play Therapy (Dion, 2005), the therapist views aggressive play as: A window to the child’s regulatory systems An area that must be avoided at all costs A place to direct the child with strategies Absolutely unacceptable

12.  The only way to do Sand Tray therapy is… Outside at a park With very specific modalities and techniques There are many techniques and ways to interpret a sand tray With young children

13.  Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) can be helpful with children of parental divorce to teach: What their thoughts, feelings, and perceptions are of the divorce How messed up their parents are That the child themselves is to blame for the divorce How to make friends who also have divorced parents

14.  Teaching children specific breathing techniques for managing stress is: Likely to have already been done elsewhere Likely to lead them nowhere Likely to lead to lots of frustration Likely to be very helpful

15.  Family based interventions for parental divorce are: Very uncommon Not often utilized Researched and available Lacking research support and not available