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KMID : 1022520070110010053
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Journal of Play Therapy
2007 Volume.11 No. 1 p.53 ~ p.75
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The case study of sandplay therapy for a unsocial girl with insecure attachment
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Chang Hyun-Sook
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Abstract
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This study presents a case of sand play therapy for a seven-year-old girl who shows unsocial behavior problems like oral fixation symptoms. Since her mother remains under depression, the girl appears not to have established an stable attachment with the mother. Under circumstances, she looked passively shy and tried to bite everything around her. Moreover, she appeared very unsocial and difficulty in having relation with her peers. The case has 20 sand play sessions from Jun. 2006 to Nov. 2006. In sand play, the girl was provided with a safe and protected sand tray; she could freely express her anxiety, suppressed desire, and other negative feelings through symbolic activities and experienced a great deal of support and understanding. Through a series of sand play, the girl has become free of emotional fear, overcome traumatic experiences, and established an ego of herself. Consequently, her habitual bite disappears and she becomes active and pro-social in peer interaction. This study shows the importance of positive relations with parents during early childhood and the therapeutic meaning of sand play therapy through the case of a unsocial girl having a depressive mother with traumas resulting from lack of affection and rape in childhood.
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KEYWORD
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insecure attachment, oral fixation, sandplay therapy
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