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KMID : 1022520090130020001
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Journal of Play Therapy
2009 Volume.13 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.13
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Children’s aggression and the theory of mind
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Lee Kyung-Hye
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Abstract
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This study aims to verify the effectiveness of mother-child group therapeutic play with purpose of exploring new therapeutic play approached in order to increase interaction between the child care of working mothers and their children who have problem in interacting. The subjects of this study were 5 working mothers who are working for public service and their 5 children at 4 and 5 years old attending the day care centers. All of them participated in group therapeutic play voluntarily. The mother-child group therapeutic play was constructed based on need assessment through interview with working mothers and verification on the face validity for therapeutic play experts and it was performed for 12 sessions in total, 2 session per week. According to results from quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis of this study, implementation of mother-child group therapeutic play increased the interaction between working mothers and their children in positive way. Also in the mother-child interaction, children showed confidence in self-expression, more natural in expressing positive and negative emotions, recognition on the emotions of others, and adjusting their behaviors to the feelings of others. Also in the mother-child interaction, all of such as the tendency of instruction giving by mothers and the acceptance level from children, variation in approachability toward each other as well as bodily contract, and reaction to the action and facial expression of counterpart (between mothers and children) was changed into positiveness. In case of children, such variation factors for interaction were appeared as result of re-experiencing the relationship with mother, mother’s change (environmental change), and sympathetic interaction. For mothers, the were appeared as result of modeling and participation, insights on self, change in children. These results may have their significances in terms that they provided a framework that can activate the mother-child therapeutic play far more for many working mothers and their children.
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KEYWORD
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interaction, mother-child group theraplay, working mother
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