자아통합을 이루어가는 비행청소년의 모래놀이치료 사례연구

Abstract

This case study is the case of a male student in the third year of middle school who was requested after receiving sandplay therapy and psychological counseling from the family court for special theft. The client was usually a model student, but he lacked warm care or conversation in his family, and was in a very empty state with no one to openly communicate his feelings with friends. The client experienced tension due to psychological anxiety in adolescence and was involved in delinquent behavior several times while socializing with peers in a state of self-identity confusion. Through sandplay therapy, the client’s treatment goal was to relieve inner confusion, conflict, and anxiety, and to increase the strength of the ego to escape from the stupor of self-identity and safely achieve the task of the rite of passage of puberty. The process of sandplay therapy in this case was divided into three stages of the rite of passage: separation (the stage of anxiety and conflict consciousness) - transition (the stage of confrontation) - integration. In the process of integrating opposites while conscious of confusion, conflict, and anxiety factors, and resolving suppressed emotions, the intensity of ego increases, showing how to build one’s masculinity and establish one’s self-identity. In addition, the therapist played the role of sufficiently containing the client’s feelings so that they could comfortably express their feelings in the sandbox. Through this process, the client experienced inner healing by converting negative energy inside into positive energy, and it can be said to be a case that shows the process of finding one’s true self and finding one’s dream while adapting to a real group.