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Direct linkFry, Mary L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A comparison between Child-Centered Group Play Counseling (CCGPC), a psychoeducational group and a non-therapeutic control group resulted in three of four hypotheses being supported. Participants included 79 second and third graders, with one fourth grader, from seven elementary schools. The children had behavioral and social skills difficulties…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Child Behavior, Behavior Problems, Interpersonal Competence
Ojiambo, Deborah – ProQuest LLC, 2011
This pilot study investigated the impact of group activity play therapy (GAPT) on displaced orphans aged 10 to 12 years living in a large children's village in Uganda. Teachers and housemothers identified 60 preadolescents exhibiting clinical levels of internalizing and externalizing behavior problems. The participants' ethnicity was African and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pilot Projects, Play Therapy, Counseling Effectiveness
McGee, Lola V. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of child-centered play therapy as an intervention when the client and the counselor do not speak the same language. The participants of the study were 34 Spanish-speaking children of Hispanic descent ranging in age from 4 to 8 who were referred to counseling for exhibiting…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Behavior Problems, Speech Communication, Play
Peer reviewedFlahive, Mon-hsin Wang; Ray, Dee – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2007
The effectiveness of group sandtray therapy, a model of play therapy, was evaluated using a pretest-posttest control group design with 56 preadolescents exhibiting behavioral difficulties. The experimental group (n = 28) received sandtray therapy in small groups for 10 weeks while the wait-list control group (n = 28) received no treatment. Results…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Play, Group Counseling
