The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sandplay therapy for the major
psychological problem about the anxiety and the defense style for reducing anxiety of the mother of
disabled children. This study aims to find positive influence the relationship between the disabled
children and their mothers to help the psychological stability and to find the personal self-esteem of
the mothers. The sandplay therapy is effective to reduce the self-inhibitory defense style of the
mother of disabled children. The level of the self-inhibitory defense style of the experimental group
becomes lower after the sandplay therapy and it shows the significant statistic difference. To reflect
the result of this study, the sandplay verifies to reduce the anxiety of the mother of disabled
children and it shows the increasing the adaptive defense style. Also, this study verifies the sandplay
therapy is effective to reduce the negative maladaptive defense style.
초 록 [영문]
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of sandplay therapy for the major
psychological problem about the anxiety and the defense style for reducing anxiety of the mother of
disabled children. This study aims to find positive influence the relationship between the disabled
children and their mothers to help the psychological stability and to find the personal self-esteem of
the mothers. The sandplay therapy is effective to reduce the self-inhibitory defense style of the
mother of disabled children. The level of the self-inhibitory defense style of the experimental group
becomes lower after the sandplay therapy and it shows the significant statistic difference. To reflect
the result of this study, the sandplay verifies to reduce the anxiety of the mother of disabled
children and it shows the increasing the adaptive defense style. Also, this study verifies the sandplay
therapy is effective to reduce the negative maladaptive defense style.