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KMID : 1037320100030010063
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2010 Volume.3 No. 1 p.63 ~ p.82
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The effect of play therapy of 6-year-old boy with anxiety disorder and individual psychotherapy with mother
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Park Jin-Ah
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of play therapy for a child diagnosed anxiety disorder and parent-child relationship problem. The subject was a 6-year-old boy with anxiety disorder. The case formulation was that the anxiety problem came from the combination of difficult temperament and insecure attachment with mother.
The goals of therapy were two. First, decreasing the anxiety through the therapist’s consistent and acceptable relationship with anxious child. Second, providing the individual psychotherpay child’s mother who is anxious. The effects of play therapy and individual psychotherapy with mother were that child’s anxiety problems were decreased, self-esteem was promoted, and the level of life stress was reduced. Also mother’s anxious symptoms were reduced and the relationship with child was improved.
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KEYWORD
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anxiety disorder, play therapy, individual psychotherapy
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