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KMID : 1094520200230020135
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Korean Journal of Play Therapy
2020 Volume.23 No. 2 p.135 ~ p.162
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A Qualitative Analysis on the Experience Process of Experienced Child-Centered Play Therapists’ Authenticity
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Oh Kyung-Mi
Yoo Mee-Sook
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Abstract
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The purpose of this study was to better understand the kinds of processes experienced by child-centered play therapists in terms of authenticity during therapeutic scenarios, and to develop some basic theories from this. The author selected five experienced child-centered play therapist as study participants, and each participant underwent three to four individual interview. Appling hermeneutic grounded theory(Rennie, 2000, 2006, 2007, 2012), the participants’ verbal statement data, construction and description of categories, core categories and process analysis were analyzed. Firstly, 15 meanings units, 7 sub-categories, and 3 categories emerged through category construction. These 3 categories were as follows; ‘a mental attitude of respecting the child client as a human being’, ‘awareness of the therapist’s internal experience as a whole human being’ and ‘expressing one’s own internal experience externally as a therapist’. In turn, this led to the following observations 1) The experienced child-centered play therapists’ authenticity begins from the attitude of respecting the child as a human being. 2) The experienced child-centered play therapists’ authenticity is based on being able to be aware of the therapist’s own emotions and desires, and the child’s experience of the situation or the child’s mental or emotional state. 3) The child-centered play therapists’ authenticity began to filter when responses and behaviors came from their own emotions and desires and also depending upon whether it is therapeutic or not. Additionally expressing internal experiences by attuning to verbal or nonverbal messages and their timing was important. Secondly, through integrating categories and through continuous you-I awareness, the change from an ‘authentic self’ to becoming a ‘therapeutic self’ was brought out as the core category. Thirdly, through process analysis, 3 further steps emerged, as follows; ‘awaken authenticity’, ‘be aware of authenticity’, and ‘reciprocate authenticity’. The study analyzed the experience process of experienced child-centered therapists’ authenticity in great detail, and it is expected to serve as practical and useful information for the training and education of novice play therapists.
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KEYWORD
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experienced, child-centered play therapist, authenticity, experience process of authenticity, hermeneutic grounded theory, qualitative analysis
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