| Summary: | 碩士 === 中國文化大學 === 心理輔導學系 === 104 === The current study recruited twenty four 1st-grade and 2ed-grade (7-9-year-olds) at elementary schools in Taipei and Taoyuan city. The participants were referred from their teachers because of the emotional disturbance. Research participants were randomly assiguned to experimental group (n=12) and control group (n=12). The present study used pretest-posttest experimental design. Participants in the experimental group received child-centered play therapy once a week for 10 weeks, while participants in the control group did not receive any intervention.
Both groups were administered by four questionnaires including Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance, Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale, Child Behavior Checklist For Ages 6-18 (CBCL), and Teacher’s Report Form For Ages 6-18 (TRF) in the prior and after receiving child-centered play treatment. All data was analyzed by the analysis of covariance model (ANCOVA).
The main results of the current study were:
1.According to the Scale for Assessing Emotional Disturbance, child-centered play therapy significantly decreased emotional disorder among emotional disturbance children.
2.According to the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale filled by teacher, child-centered play therapy significantly decreased emotional disorder among emotional disturbance children, but did not show significantly improvement in the Behavioral and Emotional Rating Scale filled by parents.
3.According to the Child Behavior Checklist for Ages 6-18 (CBCL), and Teacher’s Report Form for Ages 6-18 (TRF), child-centered play therapy significantly decreased emotional and behavioral problems among emotional disturbance children.
Based on the results of the study, the author provided suggestions for school counselors as well as further researchers.
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