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PECP CE credit Quizzes- Class 1-8

PECP Online Class 1
- OBJECTIVES:
  
  Developing your own Nature Connection and identify the crucial need of this for ecotherapists clinical practice.
  
  Learn about the importance of reciprocity and right relationship with Nature and the sites you select for ecotherapy sessions.
  
  Learn the elements needed for a good outdoor ecotherapy site;
  
  Site considerations, ethical, safety, legal, client-site assessments.
  
  Considerations of indoor ecotherapy activities.
  
  Review learning from the 8-day immersion
  
  Other subjects of empirically founded information which, provides the therapist the ability to safely manage the environment in which clients do therapy.
  
  Understanding that one has a deep emotional connection to a place and deep understanding of the cycles of that place this knowledge can be transferred to another individual.
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- 1. Ecotherapy is well-described as;*
  
  The applied form of ecopsychology
  
  Therapy that holds people as a part of and not apart from the natural world
  
  A therapeutic approach that maintains that the human-Nature relationship is a key component of mental health and wellness
  
  All of the above
- 2. Categories of Ecotherapy include all of these except for;*
  
  Animal-assisted therapy
  
  Wilderness therapy
  
  Earth-emotive therapy
  
  Eco-grief therapy
- 3. Which of the following clients is not considered a good ‘fit’ for outdoor ecotherapy sessions?
  
  A teen with video gaming addiction
  
  A client with relationship issues
  
  A client who already loves being outdoors
  
  A client with strong sexualizing and idealizing transference with the therapist
- 4. Which modality is not considered an ecotherapeutic modality?
  
  Animal-assisted therapy
  
  Greennpeace therapy
  
  Therapy applying mindfulness in nature
  
  Horticulture therapy
- 5. It is important for ecotherapists to foster their own Nature Connection because:
  
  Just like other social skills such as empathy or compassion it is impossible to nurture a trait in another if that trait is not instilled and healthy in the therapist.
  
  It will make their clients respect them
  
  Placing one's body in close proximity to natural elements grounds the individual thus providing an electrical discharge into the Earth providing a shift in neuro-electrical activity.
  
  It is required by your licensing board or certifying organization
- 6. Which of the following best describes Nature Connection from an ecotherapeutic perspective?
  
  The extent to which individuals include nature as part of their identity.
  
  Having an intellectual knowledge of Natural History or a degree in biology or earth sciences
  
  Being able to name the animal species in your area
  
  Being able to show your clients how to predict the weather
- 7. Which of the following are effective ways of fostering a therapist's or a client's Nature connection?
  
  Having a daily practice of spending time mindfully connecting with Nature
  
  Learning about the ecology of one’s local environment
  
  Taking walks in your neighborhood park
  
  All of the above
- 8. Which of the following is false about fostering an ecotherapist’s Nature Connection
  
  Once I’ve achieved strong connection with Nature, I never have to tend to it again
  
  Knowledge about your local natural environment where you take clients is valuable for your work as an ecotherapist
  
  The depth and extent of a therapist’s Nature Connection may impact the client’s ability to enhance their own Nature Connection
  
  A therapist’s Nature Connection is a personal, experiential and ongoing relationship
- 9.Foundational Attachment is best defined as,
  
  The methodology for attaching structures to their underlying foundations, which mirrors how an individual relates to others
  
  Our sense of belonging and feeling at home in natural settings and as an animal on this planet
  
  Our patterns of relating to others during the foundational periods of our childhood
  
  Knowing all the plants in one’s ecoregion
- 10. Foundational Attachment is similar to traditional Attachment patterning in being,
  
  Heavily influenced by the client’s relationship patterns with early caregivers
  
  Our primary style of relating to other people
  
  A key factor in a client’s ability to build foundations for buildings
  
  A parallel system of attachment dynamics between the client and the natural work
- 11. From the ecotherapeutic viewpoint, Foundational Attachment is,
  
  More important than psychological attachment patterns.
  
  Less important than psychological attachment patterning.
  
  Equally as important as psychological attachment patterns.
  
  The only thing that matters in client treatment.
- 12. In Wilderness Reflections’ TerraSoma Approach to ecotherapy the ideal methodology for working with Foundational Attachment is,
  
  Working with both Foundational Attachment and traditional attachment dynamics.
  
  Focusing mostly upon Foundational Attachment because it’s more neglected in most people.
  
  Focusing mostly upon traditionall Attachment dynamics because everyone can relate to that.
  
  Work only on Foundational Attachment if the client specifically asks for it.
- 13. Selecting optimal outdoor sites for ecotherapy is best done by,
  
  Finding a good spot using a map and GPS.
  
  Asking others for recommendations.
  
  Building one’s own relationship with sites you hope to use.
  
  Using sites known to be sacred to indigenous peoples.
- 14. A good site for outdoor ecotherapy sessions should be,
  
  Comfortable and familiar to you and welcoming to the client
  
  Offer both prospect and refuge opportunities
  
  Totally protect the client from exposure to the elements
  
  Both a. and b.
- 15. Reciprocity with Nature is important because,
  
  it’s standard practice for all outdoor programs.
  
  it’s a central element in healing the imbalances in human-Nature relationships.
  
  it’s what Native Americans do.
  
  it can be done instead of paying park entrance fees or acquiring required permits.
- 16. Ways of fostering reciprocity with Nature and one’s outdoor sites does not include,
  
  Telling others to avoid your site so it can be ‘saved’ for you and your clients.
  
  Making appropriate offerings of gratitude to a place.
  
  Reading a poem or song to a place.
  
  Clearing trash or other damaging human impacts from a site.
- 17. Which of the following is NOT an important consideration in selecting sites for outdoor ecotherapy sessions?
  
  Client safety.
  
  Ability to manage client confidentiality well.
  
  Certainty that you will not encounter any other people during your session
  
  The site’s characteristics match the client’s needs well
- 18. The best outdoor ecotherapy sites will,
  
  Have everything a client needs.
  
  Offer a variety of micro-environments to meet varied client needs.
  
  Have big vistas and viewsheds so clients won’t feel trapped or claustrophobic
  
  Have a lot of protected nooks and hidden sanctuaries so clients won’t feel exposed or vulnerable
- 19. How many times do you as therapist need to visit a site before you’re ready to bring clients to it?
  
  One
  
  Two
  
  Four
  
  As many as it takes to be clear that it is safe, appropriate for your client and to assure that you’re in right relationship with that place.
- 20. Being in ‘right relationship’ with a site or place in Nature means?
  
  You have rights to use that place.
  
  The place is public property or your own rightful property.
  
  You have fostered a reciprocal relationship with that place, feel welcomed there and have made an effort to assure that doing sessions there will do no harm.
  
  You have told a colleague that you’re going to be using that site
- Thank you for choosing Nature as your co-therapist.
  
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PECP Online Class 2
- OBJECTIVES
  
  Ability to name four indoor ecotherapy tools
  
  Learn the pros/cons of indoor vs. outdoor sessions and justifications for outdoor work
  
  Know the key elements to the effective use of imaginal connection with nature
  
  Be able to describe the neuroscience and neuroplasticity theory that explains why using imaginal nature connection is effective
  
  Read and be able to cite two research papers validating indoor ecotherapeutic modalities
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- 1. It is always a clinically superior choice to work outdoors with a client, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. Clients with Impulse control issues are always a match for outdoor sessions because there’s ample room for unpredictable or erratic behaviors outdoors, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3. If an ecotherapist chooses an outdoor therapy sites well, they can completely guarantee a client’s confidentiality will never be breached , True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 4. One of the advantages of indoor sessions is an increased sense of containment and control of the surrounding therapeutic environment , True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. One of the advantages of outdoor sessions is greater opportunities to use a variety of seating and spacing orientations, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. Which of the following is not an indoor ecotherapy modality?
  
  Rock Reading
  
  Sandtray therapy with natural objects
  
  Sensory tables
  
  Reviewing ecological field research
- 7. It is possible by a variety of means to change the subjective context of an indoor therapy setting to reflect position within and connection to Nature and its therapeutic resources, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. Using recorded sounds and imagery from wild natural settings can have a profound positive effect on a client’s nervous system and well-being, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. There is ample research supporting the statement in question 8 above, True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. Using Medicine Cards, Animal Power, Plant Power decks is one way to bring Nature and ecotherapy into the office, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 11. Mindfulness often plays a key role in effective indoor ecotherapy work , True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 12. The majority of clients will be able to access some kind of positive Nature imagery if prompted to do so in a skillful manner by their therapist
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. Guided imagery works best when only one sensory channel is focused upon. E.g., engage the clients visual imagination but not what they smell, hear, etc., True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 14. The power of guided nature imagery work can be enhanced by shifting the work into another expressive channel (e.g., movement, voice/sounding, poetry, etc.), True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 15. Working with Nature images is usually most effective if the therapist is providing for the client all of the images rather than letting the client generate their own, True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. The quote from Rick Hansen that “Neurons that fire together, wire together” refers to,
  
  Electro-stimulation of the brain to heal chronic depression.
  
  The interplay of mirror neurons in the neuronal mimicry between therapist and client.
  
  Neural pathways being reinforced by repetitive firing in a particular pattern/sequence.
  
  Loss of brain cells due to overactivity during hallucinogen use.
- 17. According to neuroscience research, therapy will be most effective when it is experiential because healing and change happen when new neural pathways are created and reinforced, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 18. Neuroplasticiy is defined as the ability of the brain to change throughout an individual's life, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. Found nature objects can be brought into any private or agency office setting to do indoor ecotherapy work, True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. Having a client embody a part of nature that has arisen in a dream, fantasy or during actual time in nature can be a powerful way to bring ecotherapy into an indoor session, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- Thank you for choosing Nature as your co-therapist.
  
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PECP Online Class 3
- OBJECTIVES
  
  Learn the clinical opportunities, challenges and special considerations of working ecotherapeutically with "the following client populations":
  
  Children
  
  Teens
  
  Addictions/Chemically Dependent
  
  Depression & Anxiety
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- 1. When working outdoors with children, non-directive play therapy is an efficacious approach easily adapted from office-based therapy, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. Outdoor ecotherapy with kids requires extra awareness and safety education, especially with children less familiar with outdoor play time, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3. Outdoor therapy with kids offers greater liberty for children to express themselves in loud & strong ways and to have an impact on their surroundings in ways not usually permitted indoors, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 4. Working via fantasy or imaginative play outside with kids is harder than indoors because kids tend to be very concrete and literal, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. Teens are too sullen and reticent for ecotherapy to succeed, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. There is much evidence supporting the efficacy of wilderness therapy with teens, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 7. Because of their anti-social leanings, ecotherapy with teens must be individual rather than group. True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. Working outdoors with highly labile and impulsive teens requires special safety considerations and protections., True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. There are many ecotherapy modalities that have proven helpful for teens including wilderness therapy, equine therapy, horticultural therapy and therapy using primitive skills, True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. Group therapy with teens must be with single gender groups, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 11. If taking a teen with impulse-control outside for sessions, the therapist must attend to numerous special safety considerations such as what to do if the teen runs away and surveying the area for any materials or land features that could be used for self harm (eg. cliff jumping, rock or tree climbing, etc.) , True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 12. There is no empirical evidence that ecotherapy works for addicts, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. Ecotherapy is contraindicated for addicts because psychological gains made in that setting are too hard to translate back into daily life, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 14. Time in Nature can be a very productive resource for chemically dependent clients in the early phases of recovery, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 15. Time in Nature can be a great help in clients in middle-phase of recovery as they do the work of healing that shadow/wounds the led them to the chemical dependency, True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. As with gambling, video gaming and other process addictions, there’s a significant risk that a chemically dependent person engaging in ecotherapy could end up addicted to time in nature and suffer negatively as a result, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 17. Ecotherapy as treatment for anxiety and depression is likely the most researched application of ecotherapy, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 18. Simply taking mindful walks in a natural setting can be more effective than almost any other single treatment for depression, True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. While exercise is widely supported as one of the best treatments for depression, “Green” or out-in-natural-settings exercise is more therapeutic than either exercise or Nature time alone, True or False
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. Ecotherapy offers an array of effective treatments for anxiety including horticultural therapy, Nature connection therapies and mindful contact with Nature objects., True or False?
  
  True
  
  False
- Thank you for choosing Nature as your co-therapist.
  
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PECP Online Class 4
- Objectives
  
  Define Trauma from a somatic, nature-based perspective
  
  Learn how to identify the appearance of traumatic activation
  
  Learn why we must work differently with trauma than with developmental issues
  
  Distinguish between trauma resolution work and trauma ‘first aid’
  
  Be able to identify 4 tools for outdoor-based ecotherapy trauma healing work
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- 1. Peter Levine defines trauma in simple terms as “anything that is too much, too soon, or too fast for our nervous system to handle…”, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. Trauma occurs only in big, external events such as accidents, surgeries, wars, physical assault, etc, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3.How we respond to an event has a lot to do with whether it becomes ‘traumatic’ or generates symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress. , True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 4.Nature is too unpredictable and dangerous a place to do trauma resolution work. This work must be done indoors , True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. You can best tell if someone has experienced trauma by the activation of the persons CNS and body, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. An event that is traumatic for one person might be insignificant or even fun for someone else, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 7. Anger, anxiety, dissociation, digestive problems, hypervigilance and body tension can all be signs or symptoms of PTSD, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. The slow rhythms of a settled natural landscape are ideal for supporting trauma resolution work, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. When signs of trauma arise in a client, it is imperative to work differently rather than ‘deepening into it’ as therapists usually do with developmental wounding and shadow work, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. Spacing or ‘zoning’ out and other dissociative reactions are often a signal of traumatic activation in a client, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 11.Three reactions to trauma are Flight, Fight or Scream, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 12. Rather than being therapeutic, unguided retelling of traumatic events in the wrong way (without more resources ‘on board’ for the client) can lead to retraumatization, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. A therapist will always be able to tell when a client is beginning to get traumatically activated, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 14. Providing ‘Trauma First Aid’ and reducing immediate symptoms of trauma is a different approach and skill set than working towards trauma resolution., True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 15. Grounding on the earth or via contact with large masses of rock, large trees, etc. can be an effective way of lessening traumatic activation, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. When working with trauma, it works just as well to find a client’s initial soothing, settling resources as they are needed as it does to identify and access those resources first., True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 17. The concept of pendulation means moving between one traumatic experience and another traumatic experience, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 18. In trauma resolution work, titration is the term used to describe finding the right amount of medicine to give a client to lessen their trauma., True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. Outdoor Nature time can never be traumatizing for people because Nature is so beautiful and wonderful, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. The first step in doing any kind of trauma treatment work with a client is to hear the client’s detailed story about what happened that was traumatizing, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- Thank you for choosing Nature as your co-therapist.
  
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PECP Online Class 5
- WEBINAR #5 Logistics, Ethics, & Liability I
  
  OBJECTIVES
  
  Be able to describe important considerations in how to manage legal and ethical considerations for outdoor sessions
  
  Know considerations for maintaining client confidentiality
  
  Know considerations for Maintaining client safety
  
  Be familiar with Acknowledgment of risk waiver use principles and materials
  
  Learn the basics for managing Liability insurance and other legal concerns re. outdoor sessions
  
  Be able to write clinical justifications for outdoor sessions
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- 1. Client confidentiality cannot be 100% assured during outdoor sessions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. It is useful in doing outdoor sessions to pre-plan for what you might do if other people are encountered during a session outdoors, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3. One of the best ways to protect client confidentiality is to choose times and places where encounters with other people are less likely , True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 4. An ecotherapist is entirely responsible for anything that might happen to jeopardize a client’s health and safety,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. Ecotherapists must have a level of emergency first aid and response training appropriate to the the settings within which they hold their sessions., True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. It is within your scope of practice as a mental health professional to guide outdoor sessions if you have the skills, training and/or experience needed to do so in a safe and clinically effective manner, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 7. If in addition to your licensing to do therapy, you also have the skills, training and/or experience to guide other outdoor activities, then it is logically within your scope of competence to weave such activities into your therapeutic work, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. If your client signs an acknowledgment of risk waiver, you are safe from any and all claims of negligence they might make, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. Best practice with creating an acknowledgment of risk waiver includes getting professional legal input on the content of the waiver, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. In an acknowledgment of risk waiver, it is unethical to name certain uncontrollable risks that may potentially be encountered in the area of your session, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 11. You cannot practice ecotherapy without a liability insurance explicitly for ecotherapy sessions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 12. The types of liability insurance most often carried by therapists in private practice will cover the therapist for outdoor sessions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. It is a standard practice with few legal or ethical concerns for a therapist to give a client a ride in their own private vehicle to/from sessions so the client isn’t inconvenienced by doing outdoor sessions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 14. It is best to always do outdoor sessions in a location with which the client is familiar and visits frequently with friends and family, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 15. It is the job of the therapist to always monitor the surroundings of an outdoor session area for threats to safety or breaches of confidentiality, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. An ecotherapist should choose carefully the setting for each session and be thorough in recording clinical reasons for any choice to do an outdoor session, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 17. There is only anecdotal evidence and little empirical evidence supporting the use of outdoor sessions in therapy, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 18. If someone known to you runs into you when you are in the middle of a session with a client, it is best practice to tell the other person that you are “in a therapy session and can’t talk right now.”, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. A given client of yours with troubling anxiety reports that they ‘feel most calm when outdoors’. This detail can be a part of your clinical justification for doing outdoor sessions with the client, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. There is ample research evidence supporting outdoor therapy approaches with addicts, veterans, teens and many other groups that can be cited as a part of your justification for doing outdoor sessions with them, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- Thank you for choosing Nature as your co-therapist.
  
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PECP Online Class 6
- OBJECTIVES
  
  Name 3 different formats for an outdoor ecotherapy session (e.g.., walk and talk, walk and sit, start seated w/o walking in, crossing a threshold, etc...)
  
  Know reasonable and customary session lengths and fee structures
  
  Learn why it's important to do indoor sessions with a client before outdoor sessions
  
  Identify 3 warning signs/contraindications to NOT to take outdoors
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- 1. One drawback with Walk-and-talk therapy is the reduced ability for the therapist to track the client’s facial expressions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. Walk-and-sit therapy sessions work best when the client doesn’t have high anxiety or other presenting issues/needs that would be best addressed by more physical activity, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3. Therapists can help a client access the wisdom and support of Nature by facilitating direct interactions and exchanges between the client and parts of Nature, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 4. Doing outdoor ecotherapy sessions will constitute a significant amount of self-revelation on the part of the therapist and this needs to be carefully considered as a part of the justification/decision about doing outdoor sessions,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. An ecotherapy session should always conform to the standard norms of therapy sessions, ‘the 50-minute hour’, etc.,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. Some ecotherapists do sessions that are 75-120 minutes long, True or False*
  
  True
  
  False
- 7. Some ecotherapists lengthen their regular sessions to accommodate the increased time demands needed to make an outdoor session effective, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. It is not legal and ethical for a therapist to have a different fee structure for outdoor sessions, so long as there is a reasonable basis for such changes, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. Even in treatment plans that focus largely on outdoor therapy sessions, it is important to adapt to certain clinical needs that arise and would be better addressed within the predictable, containing context of the office, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. Clients unable to tolerate ambiguity in the therapeutic container are not well served by moving from the office to doing outdoor sessions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 11. Clients with a history of aggression or violence towards others are not good candidates for outdoor ecotherapy, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 12. The added spaciousness of outdoor locations for therapy makes this an ideal setting for clients with strong sexual transference with the therapist, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. There is much therapeutic value in seeking to match the setting for a given ecotherapy session with the needs and preferences of the client, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 14. Most clients with a personal history of assault, physical abuse or boundary violations feel safest in a deeply wooded, dense forest environment, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- Questions 15-20 refer to the following vignette:
  
  You are walking on a trail with a regular client. You have done this many times before. While descending a small gravel hill on the trail, he slips, twists his ankle and is in considerable pain. Upon further examination, he is unable to walk. You are about 15 minutes walk down a single track trail from your vehicles. You are down in a canyon and your cell phones have no reception.
- 15. You should carry him out if at all physically possible, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. You can’t do anything to help him physically since you have no first aid supplies with you because you’re a therapist, not an outdoor guide, and it’s not your responsibility to be able to treat typical and common medical concerns during session, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 17. Even though you have first aid training and the materials you would need to treat his ankle, you cannot give any medical treatment because it’s outside your scope of practice as a therapist, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 18. Under some circumstances, the best choice with an injured hiker is to go seek additional help or a higher level of medical care, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. There are many clinical implications and therapeutic opportunities within this incident, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. No therapist should ever take a client anywhere they could get injured or that lacks complete cell phone service, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
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PECP Online Class 7
- Objectives
  
  Name 4 key elements to a successful ecotherapy private practice business plan
  
  Understand the importance of and ID the differences between tag lines, one-liners and 'elevator speeches'
  
  Know when and how to use the above self-introductions
  
  Name 4 ways to promote an ecotherapy practice with integrity
  
  Name four tools in how to close a 'sale' of a first session or group to a prospective client
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- 1. A business plan should include the steps necessary to manifest your desired outcomes and vision for you business, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. A good business plan will help you stay on track, be flexible to changing conditions in your life or the surrounding world, and set realistic expectations for expenses and income, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3. The best business plans always work out exactly as designed and if you fail to keep tightly to your business plan, it means your plan was not useful,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 4. Business plans are only really needed for larger businesses and aren’t so important for sole proprietors, like therapists in private practice,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. A ‘Tag-line’ is a gimmicky cliche that has no place in promoting a meaningful business such as a private therapy practice,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. Other people with more advertising or marketing experience are the only people who can develop really great tag-lines or one-liners for your business, True or False*
  
  True
  
  False
- 7. The term ‘elevator speech’ is given this name because it is a long speech designed to elevate the mood of those with whom you share it, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. An effective ‘elevator speech’ will quickly convey the essence of your core offering to people while also compelling further curiosity and interest in your work, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. Some promotional methods used in other fields are not ethically appropriate for promoting a therapy/ecotherapy practice, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. Using testimonials from past ecotherapy clients is ethically acceptable if it is done thru social media sites such as Facebook or websites like Yelp, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 11. If you are certified as an ecotherapist, that supersedes your clinical license and you do not have to adhere to the rules/laws that apply to your license, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 12. If you are certified as an ecotherapist, you no longer need to list your clinical license on your marketing materials, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. In-person presentations can be one of the most effective promotional methods, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 14. Making presentations thru webinars or other online formats can be fruitful for ecotherapists, even though it is an indoor and on-the-screen activity, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 15. Presentations tend to be most welcome and effective in generating new clients when the participants have a direct experience of what you do or get to watch you demonstrate your work, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. Giving listeners as much information as possible during a presentation is a very effective means at generating new clients, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 17. The “Soulful Sales” approach posits having integrity and passion for what you offer to clients is one of the best ways to attract new clients, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 18. Many prospective clients respond well to having some kind of deadline or time limit on an offer, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. It is ethical to offer packages at a discount, or discounted introductory sessions to new clients, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. Listening well and being able to offer clear solutions to a client so that the client experiences the quality of your work is one of the best ways to enroll a new prospective client into a group you are leading, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
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PECP Online Class 8
- OBJECTIVES
  
  Learn the basics of the Four Shields Map
  
  Understanding underlying theoretical (Ecopsychology principles) of the developmental model
  
  Learn to apply Four Shields to assessment
  
  Learn to apply Four Shields to treatment planning
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- 1. Assessment utilizing nature-based developmental theories supersedes other assessment models and developmental models and so other clinical knowledge and approaches is not relevant to ecotherapy, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 2. The Four Shields correspond to the four seasons, four cardinal directions, four life phases and four ways of knowing, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 3. Self-Thus, is a basic tenet of ecopsychology and is a way Foster and Little describe, Unus Mundus, non-dual, shared Self being Nature, represented by an intersection of two lines within a circle referred to as the four Shields and the circle represents the "Self-Thus" manifest, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 4. Even though there are apparent opposites in the four directions of the Four Shields they represent one whole. The integration, the sum of, the Four make a Whole, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 5. The phenomena of neurosis was known to primitive people. Their understanding was not psychoanalytic and conceptual but came from a lived experience being in community. The understanding of being part of nature and natural patterns lead to the understanding that psychological sickness could be caused by ailments (lack of movement/stagnation) in the body Shield, the psychological Shield, the Mind Shield, or the spiritual Shield,True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 6. As a developmental model, the Four Shields can be applied to assess and explore where growth may be inhibited or bypassed, causing an accentuation in another stage of growth. By supporting more balance in our human nature we can foster developmental growth in individuals, family systems, and in communities, True or False*
  
  True
  
  False
- 7. Among the developmental tasks of an adolescent in Indigenous cultures was for the young person to enter into a stage of liminality, or exploring one's identity, in the face of a trial or wrestling with a deep unsolvable question. This stage of development is represented on the Four Shields as the North Shield, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 8. In the Four Shields model, wellness is represented by being excellently developed or facile in one or even two of the Shields, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 9. According to Foster & Little, "Neurosis and psychosis can be defined as deriving from incomplete initiations, ("passages"), not only between summer and winter, but between fall and spring, winter and summer, and spring and fall. These incomplete initiations cause Shields to be exaggerated, weak, or repressed." According to this model determining the arrested transition between two developmental periods can assist a therapist in developing treatment plans and interventions, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 10. One common intervention is to support a client in jumping from the West to the East negating the unnecessary need to take on worldly responsibility and developing the mental disciplines of the North Shield. This is called a bypass or shortcut intervention focused on the solution, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 11. One way of conceiving of addictions, substance use disorders or process addictions, is to understand them as a failure to move through cycles of the west shield: trial-initiation-growth-responsibility. This often occur as growth being arrested in which shield?*
  
  South
  
  West
  
  North
  
  East
- 12. A therapist developing a treatment plan for a client arrested in the South Shield might develop an intervention to facilitate the client cycling through the East Shield to the North Shield (counter-clockwise) as a method for accepting both personal gifts and responsibilities, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 13. A 68 year old executive is working 60-70 hour work weeks and initiates therapy due to anxiety, hypertension, and insomnia. The client speaks of nightmares where a buffalo is pushing through melting snow which turns into a river and the Buffalo is pulled down stream towards raging rapids.But after the rapids, the river widens, and the Buffalo turns into a Salmon and turns to swim upstream to spawn. An ecotherapist utilizing a Four Shields model might write a treatment plan with this order explorations.*
  
  a) Inquire what the client not only makes of the dream as in ideas about its meaning but what the client felt emotionally, explore insights, support the client to notice sensations in the body, support the client to tolerate the lack of clarity, refraining from having to have an answer, and explore the experience of being in moving water.
  
  b) Interpret the dream as being a powerful person feeling out of control in the face of the natural changes of stages life and end of life concerns and direct the client to go whitewater rafting.
  
  c) None of these as ecotherapists don't include dreams, or imaginal, or somatic work in therapeutic interventions.
  
  d) Explore the depth and soul in the metaphor of the client's dream and provide a strategic intervention that encourages the client to worry about the adverse effect his company's product has on wildlife.
- 14. One of the many benefits of ecotherapy that occurs in treatment over a cycle of four seasons is the embodied exploration of the client's ability to be with the fact that "Nature loves change" and as Nature we too must embody different Shields in order to be resilient human beings. By exploring the natural cycles of the seasons and processing our abilities to “personify” the qualities of particular seasons, we develop more adaptive behaviors in the face of stressful life changes., True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 15.The Four Shields has also been called The Medicine Wheel. Arguably, the greatest medicine that it bestows on a healing practitioner is that it provides the practitioner with a non-pathologizing assessment & treatment planning instrument., True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 16. A therapist working with an aging adult population and applying the Four Shields model might suggest the following exercise as an intervention:*
  
  a) Strenuous outdoors activities.
  
  b) Dancing, Singing, Picking Seasonal Fruits and eating them before getting them home.
  
  c) Memorizing elements of Nature and their placement on the Four Shields.
  
  d) Rites and rituals of death and dying.
- 17. An ecotherapist working with adolescents struggling to define themselves in social contexts and applying the Four Shields model might suggest the following exercise as an intervention:*
  
  a) A group night hike lead by the youth and accompanied by adults.
  
  b) Summer course at a local community college.
  
  c) Rituals of scarification, trial by fire, or high risk adventure therapy.
  
  d) Opening more social media accounts to help refine personal identity.
- 18. A therapist working with young children and applying the Four Shields model might suggest the following exercise as an intervention: periods of quiet solo time in nature nearby to the group followed by coming back to the group to share experiences, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 19. A therapist working with adults struggling with burnout at work and applying the Four Shields model might suggest an exercise that brings the clients into contact with the energies of dawn, such as praying or doing yoga at sunrise, True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
- 20. According to Foster & Little "Applied Four Shields theory involves the immersion of human in nature in order to affect a reciprocal healing process. Because there is a two-way permeable boundary between the two, the entire whole -the self-thus - is healed.” , True or False?*
  
  True
  
  False
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