Child Life Certification Questions 2025 with Complete
Answers
3 types of relationships by Varcarolis. - ✔✔Friendship (social), Intimate, and Therapeutic
(professional).
Stuart and Sundeen- 3 most commonly conceived phases in a therapeutic relationship: -
✔✔1. Initiation/orientation phase.
2. Working phase.
3. Termination phase.
3 primary theoretical bases for most clinical mental health work: - ✔✔1. Phsychoanalytical
theory (Freud)
2. Humanist Movement (Rogers)
3. Learning Theory
What is the most important goal in the first phase of forming a therapeutic relationship -
✔✔Trust
Trust - ✔✔Having confidence in another person, or accepting another person as being true
and reliable without being able to or seeing the need to verify it.
Boundaries - ✔✔Limitations or barriers that keep some things in and keep others out.
Peterson and Solomon - 3 ways ways boundaries are established for professionals: - ✔✔1.
Licensure or certification
2. Development of ethical standards.
,3. Implied definitional assumption that professional relationships are to be kept professional,
not personal
Bolig - 5 approaches to CL programming: - ✔✔1. Diversion
2. Activity/recreation
3. Child development
4. Therapeutic
5. Comprehensive
Elements of communication - ✔✔speaker, listener, message, channel, feedback, and
context.
Nonverbal behaviors include: - ✔✔facial expressions, posture, gestures, movement, and
vocal variations.
Statement of fact - ✔✔made only after observation, limited to what is observed, only made
by observer, only be made about the past or present, approach certainty, subject of standards
of verifiability.
Statement of inference - ✔✔made at any time, go beyond what has been observed, made by
anyone, may be made about anytime (past, present, or future), involve varying degrees of
probability, not subject of standards.
Allness error - ✔✔The tendency to use absolutes.
Jargon - ✔✔Confused unintelligible language
Nonreciprocal gaze - ✔✔gaze that is not returned
, Mutual gaze - ✔✔when two people look at each other
Gaze aversion - ✔✔When one person looks away from another
Staring - ✔✔extended, unwelcome looking at another person
Ashley Montagu - ✔✔Argued that touch is necessary for human existence.
4 stages of the listening process - ✔✔Hearing, attention, understanding, remembering
Family-centered care - ✔✔An approach to healthcare that is based on mutually beneficial
partnerships between patients, families, and healthcare professionals.
Emotional support - ✔✔Type of support that provides more positive attitudes about work
and personnel.
Gather info from 3 sources for assessment: - ✔✔1. Healthcare Team
2. Family
3. Child
Gather information from the family in regards to: - ✔✔1. Recent stresses for child and family
2. Child's usual responses to stress
3. typical coping strategies used by child
Play (in regards to assessment) - ✔✔Is the best assessment tool for CLS to communicate with
child.
Answers
3 types of relationships by Varcarolis. - ✔✔Friendship (social), Intimate, and Therapeutic
(professional).
Stuart and Sundeen- 3 most commonly conceived phases in a therapeutic relationship: -
✔✔1. Initiation/orientation phase.
2. Working phase.
3. Termination phase.
3 primary theoretical bases for most clinical mental health work: - ✔✔1. Phsychoanalytical
theory (Freud)
2. Humanist Movement (Rogers)
3. Learning Theory
What is the most important goal in the first phase of forming a therapeutic relationship -
✔✔Trust
Trust - ✔✔Having confidence in another person, or accepting another person as being true
and reliable without being able to or seeing the need to verify it.
Boundaries - ✔✔Limitations or barriers that keep some things in and keep others out.
Peterson and Solomon - 3 ways ways boundaries are established for professionals: - ✔✔1.
Licensure or certification
2. Development of ethical standards.
,3. Implied definitional assumption that professional relationships are to be kept professional,
not personal
Bolig - 5 approaches to CL programming: - ✔✔1. Diversion
2. Activity/recreation
3. Child development
4. Therapeutic
5. Comprehensive
Elements of communication - ✔✔speaker, listener, message, channel, feedback, and
context.
Nonverbal behaviors include: - ✔✔facial expressions, posture, gestures, movement, and
vocal variations.
Statement of fact - ✔✔made only after observation, limited to what is observed, only made
by observer, only be made about the past or present, approach certainty, subject of standards
of verifiability.
Statement of inference - ✔✔made at any time, go beyond what has been observed, made by
anyone, may be made about anytime (past, present, or future), involve varying degrees of
probability, not subject of standards.
Allness error - ✔✔The tendency to use absolutes.
Jargon - ✔✔Confused unintelligible language
Nonreciprocal gaze - ✔✔gaze that is not returned
, Mutual gaze - ✔✔when two people look at each other
Gaze aversion - ✔✔When one person looks away from another
Staring - ✔✔extended, unwelcome looking at another person
Ashley Montagu - ✔✔Argued that touch is necessary for human existence.
4 stages of the listening process - ✔✔Hearing, attention, understanding, remembering
Family-centered care - ✔✔An approach to healthcare that is based on mutually beneficial
partnerships between patients, families, and healthcare professionals.
Emotional support - ✔✔Type of support that provides more positive attitudes about work
and personnel.
Gather info from 3 sources for assessment: - ✔✔1. Healthcare Team
2. Family
3. Child
Gather information from the family in regards to: - ✔✔1. Recent stresses for child and family
2. Child's usual responses to stress
3. typical coping strategies used by child
Play (in regards to assessment) - ✔✔Is the best assessment tool for CLS to communicate with
child.
