Archive | 2019
Sandplay therapy for mental disorders
Abstract
Sandplay therapy, one of ways for psychological counseling, is a kind of projective media therapy tool, which could reflect the patients’ inner world in a non-verbal form. Persisted sandplay therapy can smooth the psychological trauma, but also promote spiritual growth of patients. After the development for over one hundred years, sandplay has been spread around the world widely as a good psychological therapy for patients with good clinical efficacy. Sandplay therapy is mainly used to treat psychological problems of children and adolescents at the beginning, and then gradually applied to treat various psychological diseases of adults, with the development of various treatments such as couple, family, and group treatment. Sandplay therapy is usually used in the treatment of children s emotional disorders, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder syndrome, post-traumatic stress disorder, autism, and adult depression, anxiety disorder, borderline personality disorder, drug and alcohol dependence, and even physical diseases. This review will introduce the application and efficacy of sandplay therapy in the treatment of various mental disorders in recent 3-5 years. \n \n \nKey words: \nSandplay therapy;\xa0Psychotherapeutic technique;\xa0Efficacy of therapy;\xa0Current situation research