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KMID : 1022520020060010079
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Journal of Play Therapy
2002 Volume.6 No. 1 p.79 ~ p.94
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A case study on play therapy for a child who has selective mutism
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Chae Soo-Gyung
Chang Hyo-Sung
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Abstract
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This case study is for the child who selects refusing to talk as the means of need-satisfaction. Because she is not able to get need-satisfaction or take interest in other things, the up bringing environment is not consistent due to simulated depression and uneasiness. The major appeals from the retained child were refusal to talk and the propensity to offense. The play therapy program, properly planned and applied, caused improvement in the child`s confidence and speech, and taught her to recognize that there is no need to control other people. The play therapy program was executed in 52 sessions ; 2 sessions per week for 50 minutes, and 4 sessions 1 session per week for 50 minutes in the end term, for a total of 56 sessions. Concluded symptom of the retained child who refused to talk was from the child’s personality and the cause was her mother’s inconsistent attitude of bringing up the child. The therapist therapeutic goals for on the child to express her emotion, feel her emotion and others’, expose herself more frankly in a play therapy program, and educated the mother in keeping a consistent attitude in bringing up her child. As a result of applying a play therapy program, the child expressed her opinion freely, and showed that she adapt herself to her environment affirmatively. The Mother was able to respond sensitively, and grasped the child’s situation objectively.
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KEYWORD
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selective mutism, play therapy, consistent attitude
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