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The Effect of Play Therapy on the Change in Play Theme of Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD) and the Declination in Autistic Spectrum

  • Journal of Special Education: Theory and Practice
  • Abbr : JSPED
  • 2011, 12(2), pp.231~258
  • Publisher : Research Institute of the Korea Special Education
  • Research Area : Social Science > Education

강미현 1 Ju-Young Woo 2

1마음속 아이 심리상담 연구소
2나사렛대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study is to investigate the changes in play themes of RAD kids through 142 play therapies and to reduce the primary problem, autistic spectrum. The authors measures the frequency of change based on BPTAS system and conducts the pre-and post-CARS comparative analysis of the declination in autistic spectrum. The consequences of this research provide as followings; first, for a search and skillful play theme, autistic frequently arises in the early and mid-early phases with the pattern having limited play themes and iterative content. However, the pattern rarely occurs in the final phase following the radical drop of the mid-latter part. For a family and nurturing theme, the plays related to nurturing rarely arise in the early therapy, but they do fairly appear in the final part. For a control and safety theme, the play repeatedly arises in the early phase, but it is found that its frequency is radically reduced in the latter part. For the theme of a power and attack propensity, autistic spectrum occurs shortly during the middle part, but its frequency is low. Second, the score difference between pre and post CARS turns out to be 9.5, indicating that a play therapy is effective at reducing the autistic spectrum of RAD kids. The contribution of this research is to prove that a play therapy effectively reduces the autistic spectrum of RAD kids and brings about the change in a play theme.

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