| The Effects of Sandplay Therapy on Improving the Self-Differentiation, Depression, and Mother-Child Relationship of Mothers with Teenage Children |
| So-on Kim |
| Sandplay Therapist & Psychotherapist, the Voice of the Well Psychological Development Center, Suwon, Korea |
| Correspondence : |
So-on Kim ,Tel: +82-31-712-1685, Fax: +82-031-716-1685, Email: on1sos@hanmail.net
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Received: April 30, 2014 Accepted: June 15, 2014 |
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| Abstract |
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The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of sandplay therapy on decreasing the depression of mothers with teenage children, enhancing their self-differentiation, and improving their mother-child relationship. To this end, this study’s subjects were divided into a test group of five people and a control group of five people, which consisted of mothers who had teenage children. Sandplay therapy was conducted on these groups for ten weeks in fifty-minute sessions. The study’s tools included tests for the Differentiation of Self Scale, Beck Depression Index and Mother-Child Relationship Index. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the Mann-Whitney U test were performed to process the data. This study’s results showed that sandplay therapy enhances the self-differentiation of mothers with teenage children, decreases their depression, and facilitates harmonious mother-child relationships. |
| KeyWords:
Sandplay therapy, Depression, Self-differentiation, Mother-child relationship |
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