黃世琤教授 Professor Shih-Tseng Tina Huang

The purpose of the study was to investigate the impacts and therapeutic factors of the person-centered play therapy in improving the life inappropriate behaviors of an 18-year-old emotionally disturbed high school student with mental retardation. Eighteen sessions of play therapy were conducted, videotaped, and transcribed. Data were ana- lyzed by using the approach of case study, qualitative research, and template analysis.

Three main findings were: (1) the client changed gradually during the sessions, and the changes consisted of four stages, which were establishing rapport relationships, pre- senting self-capacity, expressing positive and negative emotions, and handling problems positively; the client became more and more confident, comfortably expressed personal emotions and capacities, and developed positive self-concept during the study; (2) the changes of the client may be partially caused by the experiences the client went through during the study, which were the feelings of security, the sensing of self-capacity, the achievement of autonomy, the perception of positive emotions, the release of negative emotions, the reaction to inner world, the establishment of rapport relationships, and the development of insight; (3) the person-centered play therapy may not try to elevate cli- ent’s intelligence, but the approach can contribute in attaining self-confidence and posi- tive attitude. As a result, the client expanded his own life experiences, depended less on others, and became more active, exhibited more tenderness and kindness while interact- ing with others.

Keywords
person-centered play therapy, case study, process research, counseling of mentally retarded client

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