어머니와 사별한 여자 고등학생의 모래놀이치료 사례연구

Abstract

This case study shows a process in which a 16-year-old female high school student overcomes the grief of bereavement of her mother and forms an independent sense of self-identity through sandplay therapy. The sandplay therapy conducted over a total of 47 weekly sessions, and a session lasted 50 minutes. The entire counseling session is divided into 5 stages according to the sequential structure of the narrative form of folktales: development-loss stage, crisis-mourning stage, conflict-introversion stage, climax-healing stage, and finale-reality adaptation stage. The contents of counseling were analyzed. As a result of the analysis, first, in the stage of development-loss, the client mourned the death of her mother during her sandplay therapy and expressed her feelings freely. Second, in the phase of crisis-mourning, the grief of bereavement was mourned and psychological separation from motherhood was attempted. Third, the stage of conflict-introversion was a deep unconscious and struggled to accept and overcome the reality of bereavement through introversion. Fourth, in the climax-healing stage, we tried to adapt to reality while overcoming the wounds of bereavement and experiencing positive psychological changes. Fifth, the stage of final stage-reality adaptation showed the process of designing one's future and advancing to the outside world independently and subjectively. Therefore, this study aims to present the adaptation process to the external reality through the overcoming of bereavement and the formation of adolescents' self-identity as shown in the process of sandplay therapy by a female high school student who lost her mother.