This research is aimed to investigate the relationship between a play therapist's technical characteristic and interpersonal relations orientation as personal variations and a child's therapy-resistance and thus to reveal how a play therapist influenc...
This research is aimed to investigate the relationship between a play therapist's technical characteristic and interpersonal relations orientation as personal variations and a child's therapy-resistance and thus to reveal how a play therapist influences a child during counseling.
Those surveyed for this were ninety seven play therapists who were working on a play therapy. For the research, a self-reporting questionnaire was used to investigate a play therapist's technical characteristic. And Ahn Berm-Hee's interpersonal rations orientation test reformulated on the basis of Leary's interpersonal mode of reaction and Krech's interpersonal reaction was exploited to examine interpersonal relations orientation. Also, in order to assess a child's therapy-resistance, the method that Kim Kyung-Ok has developed by analyzing adults' therapy-resistance and other resources in reference to psychoanalytical theories was used.
Collected data was analyzed by use of a statistics program, SPSS 12.0. Frequency and percentage were produced to investigate play therapists' and children's general characteristics. In addition, Cronbach's alpha was calculated to examine reliability of play therapists' interpersonal relations orientation and children's therapy-resistance. In regard to differentiated influence of play therapist's technical characteristic on therapy-resistance, one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Scheffe's mothod were used. Multiple regression analysis was also used to examine the influence of interpersonal relations orientation on therapy-resistance.
This research produced the summary outcomes as follows:
1) Regarding academic degrees in relation with play therapists' technical characteristics, the therapy-resistance of those in the Undergraduate and Master's programs were lower than that of those in the Master's and Ph. D's programs in terms of positive-aggressive resistance and total average of therapy-resistance.
2) With respect to the existence of counseling-related licenses, those with licenses were lower than those without them in terms of positive-aggressive resistance and total average of therapy-resistance.
3) In regard to the length of work experience, therapy-resistance of those with more than 3-year experience were lower than that of those with less than 3-year. When it comes to the number of cases, the therapy-resistance of those with less than 10 cases were lower than that of other three groups in terms of positive-aggressive resistance and total average of therapy-resistance. Also, in connection with passive-evasive resistance, the therapy-resistance of those with less than 10 cases were lower than that of those with from 11 to 40 cases and those with from 41 to 100 cases. In relation with therapy-participation resistance, the therapy-resistance of those with less than 10 cases were lower than that of those with from 11 to 40 cases.
4) With respect to the frequency of supervision, the therapy-resistance of those with from 11 to 50 supervisory cases were lower than that of those with more than 51 cases in terms of positive-aggressive resistance.
5) Regarding the frequency of personal counseling (education analysis), there was no substantial difference in comparison with children's therapy-resistance.
6) In regard to a play therapist's interpersonal relations orientation, social-friendly orientation lowered silent resistance and competitive-aggressive orientation increased silent resistance.
7) In relation with a play therapist's interpersonal relations orientation, less dominant-controlling orientation increased positive-aggressive resistance and disobedient-distrustful orientation increased positive-aggressive resistance.
8) With respect to a play therapist's interpersonal relations orientation, those with independent-responsible orientation had lower passive-evasive resistance. In contrast, those with disobedient-distrustful orientation had higher passive-evasive resistance.
9) In regard to a play therapist's interpersonal relations orientation, those with more disobedient-distrustful orientation had higher therapy-participation resistance, silent resistance and therapy-resistance out of total average.
10) Out of a play therapist's technical characteristics and interpersonal relations orientations (involving positive-aggressive resistance, passive-evasive resistance, therapy-participation resistance, silent resistance, therapy-resistance on average), the most influential factor on children's therapy-resistance was disobedient-distrustful orientation.