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视为完整的产品。然而，本研究旨在收集数据，寻找新的边缘来理解技术，特别关注沙游戏制作过程。根据Okada等人（1988）过去的研究，还对日本和澳大利亚的作品和过程进行了比较。2000年，我们对中小学生进行了一项研究。2001年，收集到的数据通过仔细观察每个沙盘游戏作品，根据它给人的印象，制作过程和受试者的内心体验进行分类。因此，有四点值得深入考虑，即：(1)检验沙场的数量特征；(2)试图从每个作品的整体印象来理解沙盘游戏作品；(3)寻找中学生制作的沙游戏作品与他们制作沙游戏作品时的体验之间的联系（从他们在研究后的维特滕报告中推断）；(4)试图描绘出在制作过程中沙盘游戏对象是如何被放置或移除的（这是录像），着眼于特殊情况。虽然希望在澳大利亚的中小学生中收集数据，但没有成功。这可能是因为两国对隐私的不同意识，以及沙盘游戏疗法在澳大利亚鲜为人知。这清楚地表明，需要更多地考虑在何处收集数据以及如何比较数据。此外，在澳大利亚的一所大学和一所严重残疾儿童学校进行的关于语言的研究取得了成功。重点是制作过程，深入考虑了每个研究的案例。

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.