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KMID : 1025820160240010073
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Family and Family Therapy
2016 Volume.24 No. 1 p.73 ~ p.99
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Incorporating Sandplay Therapy in Family Therapy: A Case Study
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Kim Soo-Yun
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Abstract
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Objectives: This study explored the incorporation of sandplay therapy, which is based on Jungian concepts, in the family therapy of a 30-year-old woman and her family of origin. The study aimed to examine psychological changes, changes in the family system, and the conditions of the figures used in sandplay therapy.
Methods: To perform this study, 14 family therapy sessions were conducted using sandplay therapy. The procedures of the therapy were analyzed using open coding.
Results: The psychological changes noticed in this case study were the expression of negative feelings, the experience of ambivalent feelings and of regression, the recovery of femininity, the enhancement of self-esteem and insight, and the client feeling more like herself in her new life. The changes in the family system were emotional independence from parents, reconstruction of the child-parent relationship, de-triangulation, and the client’s recognizing her parents as individuals. Through sandplay therapy, figures symbolically represented the growth and strengthening of the client’s ego, the rebuilding of herself as a woman, and the restoration of her own healing ability.
Conclusions: This study demonstrated the application of sandplay therapy in working with a family.
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KEYWORD
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sandplay therapy, child-parent relationship
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