Art Therapy Exam I with 100% Correct
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What are the steps of the crisis model applied to rape crisis intervention? - ANS-1-
Accompaniment to police, medical, judicial system, ongoing counseling
(behavioral/cognitive), psycho-ed, confidential services and required reporting to Adult
Protective Services or Children's Services Division.
What are the stages of treatment in individual therapy? - ANS-1 -Stabilize client,
decrease life threatening and behaviors that interfere with sessions.
2-Help client to feel better.
3-Resolve problems in living and residual disorders to achieve ordinary happiness.
4- Resolve the sense of incompleteness and achieve joy.
Explain brief therapy in response to natural disaster. - ANS-1-Medical emergencies take
precedence over psychological emergencies.
2-Optimal treatment 12-72 hours post event.
3- Two primary responses are; normalize feelings, help victims cope with ongoing
stress.
How can you adapt art materials to meet the needs of specific disabilities? - ANS-
Mouth-stick, motorized easels, button flipping devices, adjustable drafting boards,
magnification devices, wheel chair art, precut materials. bedridden assistive devices,
quadriplegic computers, and video cameras.
How do issues of control of transference, countertransference, and therapeutic
boundaries
display in the therapeutic relationship. - ANS-The psychodynamically oriented therapist
uses this to help the client to understand the origins of emotional problems.
1- Countertransference- A therapist unconscious or conscious reaction to a client.
(should monitor this)
2- Transference- The unconscious assignment of others feelings that were associated
with early life.
3- Boundaries- Professional boundaries include fee setting, length of session, time,
personal disclosure, limit touch, and the general tone of the relationship.
Explain the evaluation process for therapeutic treatment. - ANS-The assessment
includes; questions about the problem, family history, stressors, verbal assessment
measures to determine the problem.
, How can you work within an individual's metaphor to provide direction to individual art
therapy? - ANS-1- Art becomes a vehicle for a means of expression.
2- Art becomes a way in which the client can express metaphor.
3-Staying within the metaphor allows the individual to respond to his/her imagery
directly.
4-This allows the art therapist to use the client's metaphor to shape the intervention to
the clients situation.
What techniques can a therapist use in marital/couples therapy? - ANS-Couples can
learn communication, listening without competing. They are taught to fight fair and are
taught effective communication and expression.
What is the functional level of the mentally disabled as it affects the adaption of art
materials and techniques. - ANS-DSM IV Mental Retardation (4 degrees of functional
levels)
Mild-50-70 IQ, Moderate 35-55, Severe 20-40, Profound 20-25
How do institutional policies and procedures effect patients rights? - ANS-HIPPA Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 monitors the following:
Use of disclosures without authorization & psychotherapy notes, health information &
authorization, judicial or administrative proceedings, uses and disclosures and
opportunity to agree or disagree, to amend, notice of privacy practices, and access of
individual to protected health information.
Therapists must maintain adherence to applicable laws that apply to their code of
ethics. What are some of the legally mandated roles? - ANS-revocation of license
criteria; sex with patient, misleading or false advertising.
Protection reporting laws(child, elderly abuse and dependent)
Psychotherapist/patient privilege.
Defense against litigation by client. Healthcare oversight.
Insurance fraud, patient access to med records, minor rights, reporting of alleged
unethical conduct.
What is the role of externally set goals within an institution? - ANS-The change in the
pattern of mental health care from institutional to community based approach has had a
significant effect. The factors from reform ideologies include financial (who pays & for
what), complexity due to public policy influences such as short stay and community
treatment.
How are intervention strategies used in art therapy? - ANS-1-To enable clients to
express personal concerns.
2-Art is a tangible record of progress toward treatment goals.
3-In a group setting it involved directive aimed at specific goals.
4- Some are spontaneous others directed.
Solutions
What are the steps of the crisis model applied to rape crisis intervention? - ANS-1-
Accompaniment to police, medical, judicial system, ongoing counseling
(behavioral/cognitive), psycho-ed, confidential services and required reporting to Adult
Protective Services or Children's Services Division.
What are the stages of treatment in individual therapy? - ANS-1 -Stabilize client,
decrease life threatening and behaviors that interfere with sessions.
2-Help client to feel better.
3-Resolve problems in living and residual disorders to achieve ordinary happiness.
4- Resolve the sense of incompleteness and achieve joy.
Explain brief therapy in response to natural disaster. - ANS-1-Medical emergencies take
precedence over psychological emergencies.
2-Optimal treatment 12-72 hours post event.
3- Two primary responses are; normalize feelings, help victims cope with ongoing
stress.
How can you adapt art materials to meet the needs of specific disabilities? - ANS-
Mouth-stick, motorized easels, button flipping devices, adjustable drafting boards,
magnification devices, wheel chair art, precut materials. bedridden assistive devices,
quadriplegic computers, and video cameras.
How do issues of control of transference, countertransference, and therapeutic
boundaries
display in the therapeutic relationship. - ANS-The psychodynamically oriented therapist
uses this to help the client to understand the origins of emotional problems.
1- Countertransference- A therapist unconscious or conscious reaction to a client.
(should monitor this)
2- Transference- The unconscious assignment of others feelings that were associated
with early life.
3- Boundaries- Professional boundaries include fee setting, length of session, time,
personal disclosure, limit touch, and the general tone of the relationship.
Explain the evaluation process for therapeutic treatment. - ANS-The assessment
includes; questions about the problem, family history, stressors, verbal assessment
measures to determine the problem.
, How can you work within an individual's metaphor to provide direction to individual art
therapy? - ANS-1- Art becomes a vehicle for a means of expression.
2- Art becomes a way in which the client can express metaphor.
3-Staying within the metaphor allows the individual to respond to his/her imagery
directly.
4-This allows the art therapist to use the client's metaphor to shape the intervention to
the clients situation.
What techniques can a therapist use in marital/couples therapy? - ANS-Couples can
learn communication, listening without competing. They are taught to fight fair and are
taught effective communication and expression.
What is the functional level of the mentally disabled as it affects the adaption of art
materials and techniques. - ANS-DSM IV Mental Retardation (4 degrees of functional
levels)
Mild-50-70 IQ, Moderate 35-55, Severe 20-40, Profound 20-25
How do institutional policies and procedures effect patients rights? - ANS-HIPPA Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 monitors the following:
Use of disclosures without authorization & psychotherapy notes, health information &
authorization, judicial or administrative proceedings, uses and disclosures and
opportunity to agree or disagree, to amend, notice of privacy practices, and access of
individual to protected health information.
Therapists must maintain adherence to applicable laws that apply to their code of
ethics. What are some of the legally mandated roles? - ANS-revocation of license
criteria; sex with patient, misleading or false advertising.
Protection reporting laws(child, elderly abuse and dependent)
Psychotherapist/patient privilege.
Defense against litigation by client. Healthcare oversight.
Insurance fraud, patient access to med records, minor rights, reporting of alleged
unethical conduct.
What is the role of externally set goals within an institution? - ANS-The change in the
pattern of mental health care from institutional to community based approach has had a
significant effect. The factors from reform ideologies include financial (who pays & for
what), complexity due to public policy influences such as short stay and community
treatment.
How are intervention strategies used in art therapy? - ANS-1-To enable clients to
express personal concerns.
2-Art is a tangible record of progress toward treatment goals.
3-In a group setting it involved directive aimed at specific goals.
4- Some are spontaneous others directed.
