Assignment

Play Therapy Tracking Response Exercise

Directions: For each of the following sentence stems or descriptions of a child in the playroom, write a response that can be considered a tracking response. You can track the child’s movement, the content (what you see as the child plays) of the play, the child’s remarks,

etc,

The child is sitting the floor next to the sandbox. He looks into the sandbox, bends over and picks up a small object from the sand. You say“__________________________________

________________________________________________________________________.”

2. The child looks at you and says “I want to paint a picture!” You say “________________

______________________________________________________________________.”

3. The little girl in the playroom goes to a shelf and opens what looks like a doctor kit. She

pulls out what looks like a syringe, and presses the tip of it to her forearm. You say

“_____________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________.”

4. A little boy is sitting at the desk, cutting paper and gluing small pieces to a blue piece of

construction paper. You say “______________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________.”

5. The 5 year old boy you are with in the playroom is walking around the room, appearing to

visually check things out that he sees. He starts snapping his fingers, turns and looks

at you. You say “________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________.”

Thanks!