The withdrawn behavior in early childhood is difficult to make normal peer relationship in childhood and adolescents, and normal social living in adulthood. Therefore the therapy of withdrawn behavior in early childhood IS very important. This study i...
The withdrawn behavior in early childhood is difficult to make normal peer relationship in childhood and adolescents, and normal social living in adulthood. Therefore the therapy of withdrawn behavior in early childhood IS very important. This study is a case study of child centered play therapy with withdrawn early child. The subject of this study is 7years boy living with mother and brother. He didn’t play with mends and anounce anything and speak in small voice in day care center. And he didn’t communicate with other person and hid behind his mother back. Like this, he had problems in peer and personal relationships. He also didn’t communicate with and respond to counsellor when play therapy is started. But he started to communicate with counsellor, proposed to play game and specially played aggresive game in the middle of therapy. And he played with friends and announced in loud voice in day care center and coummunicated with other perpson. And he bothered and attacked weak children. But attack behavior disappered at the end of therapy, he maintained normal peer and personal relationships, and his teacher of day care center couldn’t find special problems in him. With these behavior changes, affirmative change came out in tests of Drawing A Person, Kinetic Family Drawing, and House-Three-Person, and desirable change came out in Korean Personality Inventory for Children.