A Study On Sandplay Intervention For Preschool Children's Behavior Problems

Children's behavior problems are the abnormal behavior which beyond the duration and strength of the correlate ages. Children's behavior problems not only affect children's learning, daily life and social activities, but also can lead to adult social maladjustment, emotional disorders, substance abuse, crime and mental illness. Children's behavior problems have received extensive attention from all sectors of society. Play is medium of play therapy by which children express their natural feelings, uncover their problems and relieve their puzzles. Children learn how to control, direct, express and accept themselves.Sandplay Therapy is a form of therapy game, in the treatment of children by creating a "free and protected" space within the sand, and water toys and games model is conducive to the child's freedom to express feelings, to trigger the imagination of children and awaken their potential for self-curing. Starting from the children's behavior problems,through case study, the study explored the achievement of sandplay therapy's treatment to the children's behavior problems.The contents of the study can be listed as follows:The first part elaborated on the concept, the relevant factors, and the treatment to the children's behavior problems. More over, the study explored the possibilities of using sandplay therapy in the children's behavior problems based on the previous studies.The second part introduced research methods. By using the teachers'questionnaire and the Rutter child behavior meter, the study investigated large, medium and small three classes of the kindergarten in Dalian。Based on the self-making standards, the study screened five children who had serious problems, and comparing the scores of the questionnaires before and after the investigation.The result and analysis to the case of the sandplay intervention are contained in the third part. The analyzing dimentions of the study contained the wound subject, the cure subject, and the transformed subject. The study improved the children's behavior problems effectively by using the comparing of the Rutter child behavior meter before and after the investigation, and connecting the evaluation of the teachers and the changing of the sandplay therapy's subject. The conclusions of the study can be listed as follows:1.Sandplay therapy can be the improving children's behavior problems effectively.2.The initial sandplay wound subject of the behavior problem children is visual.3.The finishing sandplay cure subject of the behavior problem children is visual.4.Preschool Children have unclear concept to the sandplay work, and the self-concept is uncertain.