There are some studies point out the importance of CCPT in school that CCPT is a successful intervention in school setting and majority of the school counselors use CCPT for student in session (Bratton et al., 2005; Flahive & Ray, 2007; Kottman, 2001).
Technique in CCPT In order to create the atmosphere with free, trust, safe, some of the technique are essential to be used including reflecting nonverbal behavior, reflecting feeling, facilitating creativity and spontaneity, and limit setting (Bratton, Ray, Edwards, & Landreth, 2009).
Reflecting nonverbal behavior. Counselor can use non-judgmental statement to describe the action of children through careful observation of children’s play in session. For example, instead of naming the object …show more content…
It refers to establish minimum limit in the counseling session for the sake of counselor, children and play material. It applied with the A-C-T model which consist of acknowledging the feeling, communicating the limit and targeting an alternative. For example, If the child want to use color pen to draw on the wall in counselling, counselor may first reflect child feeling by saying ‘You wish to draw picture on the wall’, ‘but wall is not for the drawing purpose’ counselor point out the limit (limit communication). You can draw picture in the paper provided (Target acceptable alternative). This skill not only benefit development of self-responsibility, but also strengthening child’s natural ability to control self-behavior and …show more content…
They perceive the world as a hostile that they think and response negatively to the people who offer helps (Carroll, 2000). According to Landreth, children with aggressive tends to find safety and accepting environment that allows them pursuit self-enhancing positive feelings (2002). That is the reason why CCPT is effective to deal with students because counselor accept the aggressive and hostile attitude of them and provide safe and accepting space for students to play freely without directive instruction. They can freely use toys such as guns, toy soldier and rubber knives to help them expressing intense emotion such as anger, hostility and frustration. With the help of limit setting in the counselling session, student can learn how to control themselves by acting appropriately with the guidance of counselor. They also can practice their self-control so that they are not only well behave in play session but also in outside world when there is an unexpected limitation (Guerney, 2001). In addition, under the trust relationship with counselor, students try to challenge their negative thought and behavior to people which motivate the improvement and change. Students can generate new belief to relationship with people especially with teacher and
Technique in CCPT In order to create the atmosphere with free, trust, safe, some of the technique are essential to be used including reflecting nonverbal behavior, reflecting feeling, facilitating creativity and spontaneity, and limit setting (Bratton, Ray, Edwards, & Landreth, 2009).
Reflecting nonverbal behavior. Counselor can use non-judgmental statement to describe the action of children through careful observation of children’s play in session. For example, instead of naming the object …show more content…
It refers to establish minimum limit in the counseling session for the sake of counselor, children and play material. It applied with the A-C-T model which consist of acknowledging the feeling, communicating the limit and targeting an alternative. For example, If the child want to use color pen to draw on the wall in counselling, counselor may first reflect child feeling by saying ‘You wish to draw picture on the wall’, ‘but wall is not for the drawing purpose’ counselor point out the limit (limit communication). You can draw picture in the paper provided (Target acceptable alternative). This skill not only benefit development of self-responsibility, but also strengthening child’s natural ability to control self-behavior and …show more content…
They perceive the world as a hostile that they think and response negatively to the people who offer helps (Carroll, 2000). According to Landreth, children with aggressive tends to find safety and accepting environment that allows them pursuit self-enhancing positive feelings (2002). That is the reason why CCPT is effective to deal with students because counselor accept the aggressive and hostile attitude of them and provide safe and accepting space for students to play freely without directive instruction. They can freely use toys such as guns, toy soldier and rubber knives to help them expressing intense emotion such as anger, hostility and frustration. With the help of limit setting in the counselling session, student can learn how to control themselves by acting appropriately with the guidance of counselor. They also can practice their self-control so that they are not only well behave in play session but also in outside world when there is an unexpected limitation (Guerney, 2001). In addition, under the trust relationship with counselor, students try to challenge their negative thought and behavior to people which motivate the improvement and change. Students can generate new belief to relationship with people especially with teacher and