ATCBE COMPREHENSIVE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔constricted affect - ✔✔normal amplitude but restricted range
✔✔inapropriate affect - ✔✔emotions expressed are not congruent with content of
patient's thoughts
✔✔labile affect - ✔✔unpredictable shifts in emotional state
✔✔basic techniques utilized in crisis intervention - ✔✔assessment; determination of the
therapeutic intervention; intervention; resolution
✔✔Explain theory of object relations - ✔✔Objects can be people or things, such as
transitional objects with which we form attachments. these objects and the developing
child's relationship with them are incorporated into a self, and become the building
blocks of the self system. The self-structure we internalize in early childhood functions
as a blueprint for establishing and maintaining future relationships.
✔✔Describe the normal development of speech and language - ✔✔As the speech
mechanism and voice mature, an infant is able to make controlled sound. This begins in
first few months of life with "cooing." By 6 months, an infant produces repetitive
syllables. End of first year, most children can say a few simple words. By 18 months, a
child can say 8-10 words. By age 2 a child can put together crude sentences. At age 3,
4, and 5, a child's vocabulary increases rapidly.
✔✔Conscious - ✔✔deals with awareness of present perceptions, feelings, thoughts,
memories, and fantasies at any particular moment. It is the part of our mental
processing that we can think and talk about rationally
✔✔Preconscious - ✔✔part of our memory, which is not always part of consciousness
but can be retrieved easily at any time and brought into our awareness.
,✔✔Unconscious - ✔✔the reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that
remain outside of our conscious awareness.
✔✔Scope of practice - ✔✔Range of methods and techniques used by professional; May
be legally defined
✔✔ID - ✔✔instant gratification with no consideration for reality of situation. The principle
principal.
✔✔Ego - ✔✔Meet needs of id with consideration of reality
✔✔Superego - ✔✔moral part, dictates belief of right and wrong.
✔✔Asphasia - ✔✔loss of speech and language abilities resulting from stroke or head
injury
✔✔articulation disorder - ✔✔difficulties with way sounds are formed and strung
together. substitute one sound for another: Wabbit instead of Rabbit.
✔✔Echolalia - ✔✔Repetition of words or phrases, usually with little or no
comprehension
✔✔passive/receptive language - ✔✔ability to comprehend information understanding
vocabulary, concepts, short-term, memory and sequencing info
example- listens or reads
✔✔HIPPA 1996 - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: Confidentiality
of patients rights.
✔✔Medical Approach - ✔✔Drugs to reduce symptoms from mental disorders
✔✔Therapeutic Approaches - ✔✔Medical approach, Impatient approach, Educational
approach
✔✔Impatient approach - ✔✔Less restorative setting, treatment addresses emergent
symptoms, stabilization of those in all levels of crisis.
✔✔Educational approach - ✔✔Children/Adults- psychoanalytic and educational insight
and techniques- use of stories, drawings, educational activities, games and play help
make sense of difficulties and gain confidence necessary to become a learner
✔✔Murals - ✔✔useful in groups to enhance social building, sharing, expressing
emotions, problem solving, mastery of media. Subject matter chosen by groups or
,therapist. Non-verbal communication skills-breaks through barriers of distrust and
isolation. Discuss what they experienced.
✔✔Group safety setting - ✔✔Therapist looks for problems and help the group to
maintain a sense of safety.
Patients who are suicidal, homicidal, psychotic in the midst of major acute crisis,
cognitively impaired patient, or with sociopathic traits are typically not referred to group
therapy until their behavior and emotional state have stabilized
✔✔scapegoat - ✔✔People blame others when frustrated and need others
✔✔Victim - ✔✔One who is targeted for persecution by another
✔✔Therapist as the group leader - ✔✔functions as a facilitator, encourages and
controls the group interchanges
✔✔Stuttering - ✔✔interruption in flow of speech such as hesitations, repetitions or
prolongations of sound, syllables, words or phrases
✔✔Perseveration - ✔✔Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a
word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence of a stimulus
✔✔Mutism - ✔✔lack of speech
✔✔Delayed Language - ✔✔slowness in development of vocabulary and grammar
necessary for expressing and understanding thoughts and ideas
✔✔Humanistic Art Therapy - ✔✔Person is studied as a whole, full life span,
developmental identity, balancing conflicts within self
✔✔Cognitive Art Therapy - ✔✔Uses art to develop cognitive skill. Emotions and
cognitions are connected. Mastery of art materials and emotions. Accomplishment.
Product Oriented.
✔✔relationship between language and cognition - ✔✔current views suggest that
cognition and language have complex similarities and differences, and both develop
over the human lifespan from genetic factors being constrained by environmental input
and cultural learning.
✔✔Dynamically oriented art therapy - ✔✔free association
influenced by freud's work
uncovering repressd materials
, ✔✔Gestalt Art Therapy - ✔✔Raises clients awareness about how they function in their
environment with family, work, school and friends
✔✔Alderian Family Art Therapy - ✔✔" draw how you think others see you" Family gains
understanding of how each family member see the world
✔✔Response to traumatic experiences can be divided into at least 4 categories. -
✔✔Emotional response
Cognitive Response
Biologically based responses
Behavioral Responses
✔✔According to edith kramer, a child may used stereotyped art as a - ✔✔defense
against "emotional upheaval" an attempt to organization, a way to ward off chaos with
excessive structure, or to repeat a previous success
✔✔Symbols that a child draws repeatedly in that same way are referred to as -
✔✔stereotyped art
✔✔Art material provides the opportunity to work in 3 dimensions and to rework and
reconstruct - ✔✔model magic, playdoh, plasticine, and water-based clay
✔✔Art material is easy to control, provides structure, and stimulates imagination -
✔✔materials for collage, pre cut magazine images, construction paper, tissue paper,
string, yarn, glitter glue/white glue
✔✔Art material encourages expression of feelings through color and brush stroke -
✔✔watercolor sets and tempera paints, card stock
✔✔Control and detail in regards to art materials - ✔✔pencils, colored pencils, oil
pastels, crayons, felt pens and paper
✔✔A learning disabled child often responds to - ✔✔3 dimensional materials. It hands-
on and allows them to construct
✔✔A hyperactive child may respond best to - ✔✔structured approaches
✔✔Working with sand can be - ✔✔relaxing, provide a sensory experience because of
its unstructured quality. helps develop social skills and use of imagination as they mix,
pour sift, stir, measure and mold sand.
ANSWERS SET A+
✔✔constricted affect - ✔✔normal amplitude but restricted range
✔✔inapropriate affect - ✔✔emotions expressed are not congruent with content of
patient's thoughts
✔✔labile affect - ✔✔unpredictable shifts in emotional state
✔✔basic techniques utilized in crisis intervention - ✔✔assessment; determination of the
therapeutic intervention; intervention; resolution
✔✔Explain theory of object relations - ✔✔Objects can be people or things, such as
transitional objects with which we form attachments. these objects and the developing
child's relationship with them are incorporated into a self, and become the building
blocks of the self system. The self-structure we internalize in early childhood functions
as a blueprint for establishing and maintaining future relationships.
✔✔Describe the normal development of speech and language - ✔✔As the speech
mechanism and voice mature, an infant is able to make controlled sound. This begins in
first few months of life with "cooing." By 6 months, an infant produces repetitive
syllables. End of first year, most children can say a few simple words. By 18 months, a
child can say 8-10 words. By age 2 a child can put together crude sentences. At age 3,
4, and 5, a child's vocabulary increases rapidly.
✔✔Conscious - ✔✔deals with awareness of present perceptions, feelings, thoughts,
memories, and fantasies at any particular moment. It is the part of our mental
processing that we can think and talk about rationally
✔✔Preconscious - ✔✔part of our memory, which is not always part of consciousness
but can be retrieved easily at any time and brought into our awareness.
,✔✔Unconscious - ✔✔the reservoir of feelings, thoughts, urges, and memories that
remain outside of our conscious awareness.
✔✔Scope of practice - ✔✔Range of methods and techniques used by professional; May
be legally defined
✔✔ID - ✔✔instant gratification with no consideration for reality of situation. The principle
principal.
✔✔Ego - ✔✔Meet needs of id with consideration of reality
✔✔Superego - ✔✔moral part, dictates belief of right and wrong.
✔✔Asphasia - ✔✔loss of speech and language abilities resulting from stroke or head
injury
✔✔articulation disorder - ✔✔difficulties with way sounds are formed and strung
together. substitute one sound for another: Wabbit instead of Rabbit.
✔✔Echolalia - ✔✔Repetition of words or phrases, usually with little or no
comprehension
✔✔passive/receptive language - ✔✔ability to comprehend information understanding
vocabulary, concepts, short-term, memory and sequencing info
example- listens or reads
✔✔HIPPA 1996 - ✔✔Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act: Confidentiality
of patients rights.
✔✔Medical Approach - ✔✔Drugs to reduce symptoms from mental disorders
✔✔Therapeutic Approaches - ✔✔Medical approach, Impatient approach, Educational
approach
✔✔Impatient approach - ✔✔Less restorative setting, treatment addresses emergent
symptoms, stabilization of those in all levels of crisis.
✔✔Educational approach - ✔✔Children/Adults- psychoanalytic and educational insight
and techniques- use of stories, drawings, educational activities, games and play help
make sense of difficulties and gain confidence necessary to become a learner
✔✔Murals - ✔✔useful in groups to enhance social building, sharing, expressing
emotions, problem solving, mastery of media. Subject matter chosen by groups or
,therapist. Non-verbal communication skills-breaks through barriers of distrust and
isolation. Discuss what they experienced.
✔✔Group safety setting - ✔✔Therapist looks for problems and help the group to
maintain a sense of safety.
Patients who are suicidal, homicidal, psychotic in the midst of major acute crisis,
cognitively impaired patient, or with sociopathic traits are typically not referred to group
therapy until their behavior and emotional state have stabilized
✔✔scapegoat - ✔✔People blame others when frustrated and need others
✔✔Victim - ✔✔One who is targeted for persecution by another
✔✔Therapist as the group leader - ✔✔functions as a facilitator, encourages and
controls the group interchanges
✔✔Stuttering - ✔✔interruption in flow of speech such as hesitations, repetitions or
prolongations of sound, syllables, words or phrases
✔✔Perseveration - ✔✔Uncontrollable repetition of a particular response, such as a
word, phrase, or gesture, despite the absence of a stimulus
✔✔Mutism - ✔✔lack of speech
✔✔Delayed Language - ✔✔slowness in development of vocabulary and grammar
necessary for expressing and understanding thoughts and ideas
✔✔Humanistic Art Therapy - ✔✔Person is studied as a whole, full life span,
developmental identity, balancing conflicts within self
✔✔Cognitive Art Therapy - ✔✔Uses art to develop cognitive skill. Emotions and
cognitions are connected. Mastery of art materials and emotions. Accomplishment.
Product Oriented.
✔✔relationship between language and cognition - ✔✔current views suggest that
cognition and language have complex similarities and differences, and both develop
over the human lifespan from genetic factors being constrained by environmental input
and cultural learning.
✔✔Dynamically oriented art therapy - ✔✔free association
influenced by freud's work
uncovering repressd materials
, ✔✔Gestalt Art Therapy - ✔✔Raises clients awareness about how they function in their
environment with family, work, school and friends
✔✔Alderian Family Art Therapy - ✔✔" draw how you think others see you" Family gains
understanding of how each family member see the world
✔✔Response to traumatic experiences can be divided into at least 4 categories. -
✔✔Emotional response
Cognitive Response
Biologically based responses
Behavioral Responses
✔✔According to edith kramer, a child may used stereotyped art as a - ✔✔defense
against "emotional upheaval" an attempt to organization, a way to ward off chaos with
excessive structure, or to repeat a previous success
✔✔Symbols that a child draws repeatedly in that same way are referred to as -
✔✔stereotyped art
✔✔Art material provides the opportunity to work in 3 dimensions and to rework and
reconstruct - ✔✔model magic, playdoh, plasticine, and water-based clay
✔✔Art material is easy to control, provides structure, and stimulates imagination -
✔✔materials for collage, pre cut magazine images, construction paper, tissue paper,
string, yarn, glitter glue/white glue
✔✔Art material encourages expression of feelings through color and brush stroke -
✔✔watercolor sets and tempera paints, card stock
✔✔Control and detail in regards to art materials - ✔✔pencils, colored pencils, oil
pastels, crayons, felt pens and paper
✔✔A learning disabled child often responds to - ✔✔3 dimensional materials. It hands-
on and allows them to construct
✔✔A hyperactive child may respond best to - ✔✔structured approaches
✔✔Working with sand can be - ✔✔relaxing, provide a sensory experience because of
its unstructured quality. helps develop social skills and use of imagination as they mix,
pour sift, stir, measure and mold sand.
