A comparative study of sandplay-making process between Australian and Japanese

沙盘游戏疗法是临床心理学中被认为有效的治疗方法之一。过去的研究倾向于将沙盘游戏作品视为完成的产品。然而，本研究旨在收集数据，寻找新的边缘来理解这项技术，特别关注沙盘制作过程。根据Okada等人过去的一项研究，还对日本和澳大利亚的工作和工艺进行了比较。(1988).在2000年对中小学生进行了一项研究。2001年，收集的数据通过仔细查看每一件沙盘游戏作品来分类，根据它给人的印象，制作过程，以及受试者的内心体验。因此，本文提出了四点值得深入思考的问题，即：(1)对沙盘游戏作品的数字特征进行考察；(2)试图从每件作品的整体印象中理解沙盘游戏作品；(3)寻找中学生制作的沙盘游戏作品与他们在制作过程中经历的联系(从研究后的报告中推断出来)；(4)针对具体案例，试图绘制出玩沙子的物体在制作过程中是如何放置或移走的(录像)。尽管曾希望收集澳大利亚中小学生的数据，但并不成功。这可能是因为两国对隐私的意识不同，以及沙盘疗法在澳大利亚鲜为人知。这清楚地表明，在哪里收集数据以及如何比较这些数据需要更多的考虑。此外，澳大利亚的一所大学和一所严重残疾儿童语言学校的研究也取得了成功。在强调制作过程的同时，每项研究的案例都得到了深入的考虑。

Sandplay therapy is one of the therapeutic methods in clinical psychology that has been thought effective. Past studies had tended to see sandplay-works as completed products. However this study aimed to collect data, seeking new edges to understand the technique, paying special attention to the sandplay-making process. A comparison was also made between works and processes in Japan and Australia, following a past study by Okada et al. (1988).A research was carried out on primary and secondary students during 2000. In 2001, the collected data was classified through a careful look on each sandplay-work, in terms of the impression it gave, the making process, and subject's inner experience. As a result, there came out four points for deeper consideration, i.e. (1) an examination on the numbers characterizing the sandplay-works ; (2) an attempt to understand the sandplay-works from the impression of each work as a whole ; (3) a search for the links between what sandplay-works the secondary students had made and what they had experienced while making them (that were inferred from their vttitten reports after the research) ; (4) an attempt to graph how sandplay-objects had been placed or removed during the making process (which was videotaped), looking on particular cases.Although it had been hoped to collect data in Australian primary and secondary students, it was not successful. This is probably because of the different consciousness about privacy between the two countries as well as of that the sandplay therapy is scarcely known in Australia. This made it clear that much more consideration was necessary for where to collect data and how to compare them. Furthermore researches were successful in Australia at a university and a school for severely handicapped children on speech. With an emphasis on the making process, cases from each research were considered deeply.