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KMID : 1094520100130030023
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Korean Journal of Play Therapy
2010 Volume.13 No. 3 p.23 ~ p.38
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A Qualitative Research on Sand Play Therapy for Neglected Children in Low-Income Brackets
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Kim Do-Hee
Sunwoo Hyun
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study is to find ‘which experience’the neglected children have in the process of sand play therapy and what the ‘essence’ is in its experience. We also aim to examine a change observed for the neglected children in low-income brackets in a qualitative manner. The subjects consist of four girls in the 4th-6th grades who attend after-school classroom in the evening at the community welfare center. All of these children have experienced physical negligence and are currently experiencing emotional negligence. Under the framework of Giorgi’s phenomenological method, all materials are collected and the findings are elicited according to Giorgi’s phenomenological analytical procedure in four steps. As a result, 11 sub-components are found in the experience of sand play therapy for the neglected children in low-income brackets. Through the process of grouping, four components are elicited: 1) ‘contact’, 2) ‘acceptance’, 3)‘expression,’ and 4) ‘growth’. All these components represent specific personalized characteristics of each child that are experienced and further developed during the process of the sand-play therapy. These characteristics are related with the uniqueness and the individulaity of the neglected children in low-income brackets. During the process of the sand-play therapy, it became evident that these children exposed their internal world and faced it, revealed their unfulfilled desires and angers, and eventually showed mental growth.
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KEYWORD
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neglected children, sand play therapy, qualitative study
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