CT Counseling Techniques & Interventions 3

Question 1

A child aged 7 is struggling to understand their grandmother's death. Which developmental concept should guide the counselor's approach?

Accepted Answer

Children may not yet fully grasp all four components of death concept: irreversibility, universality, non-functionality, and causality

Answer

By age 7, children are developing but may not yet fully master all four components of the death concept, requiring concrete and developmentally appropriate explanations.

Question 2

Which intervention is specifically designed to help bereaved children externalize and process grief through creative expression?

Accepted Answer

Art therapy and sandtray therapy

Answer

Art therapy and sandtray therapy allow children to externalize internal grief experiences through symbolic and creative expression.

Question 3

When counseling an adolescent who lost a peer to suicide, which intervention specifically addresses contagion risk?

Accepted Answer

Safe messaging guidelines and postvention protocols

Answer

Postvention protocols using safe messaging guidelines reduce suicide contagion risk among surviving peers following a peer suicide.

Question 4

A thanatologist uses the 'two-chair technique' with a bereaved client. What is the primary therapeutic goal?

Accepted Answer

To facilitate dialogue between two conflicting aspects of self or between the client and the deceased

Answer

The two-chair technique, from Gestalt therapy, facilitates unfinished business by enacting dialogue between the client and the deceased or between conflicting internal voices.

Question 5

Which approach to meaning reconstruction after loss is most associated with Robert Neimeyer?

Accepted Answer

Narrative therapy and meaning-making in grief

Answer

Robert Neimeyer's constructivist approach focuses on narrative identity reconstruction and meaning-making following loss.

(CT) Certified Thanatologist Practice Test

(CT) Certified Thanatologist Practice Test

CT Counseling Techniques & Interventions 3