The purpose on this study is identify the effect of child centered play therapy on the decrease of the residential children\'s depression and aggression. the representative characters of the residential children. The research method is followed. The subject of this study is 14 residential children, aging from 10 to 11. CDI, test of aggression were carried out on these children as a pre-test. For one group of 7 children, child centered play therapy was performed during July. 26. 2004 - Nov. 29. 2004, 45 minutes a time, 1 time a week, totally 20 times, and for another group of 7 children, nothing was performed for comparison.
After the end of play therapy, CDI, test of aggression and K-CBCL, the same as pre-test, were carried out on these 14 children as a post-test.
The data collected in this study were analyzed by SAS Statistics Package. In order to examine the homogeneity of pre-test between two groups, t-test was carried out. And in order to examine the difference of post-test between two groups after play therapy treatment, ANCOVA was carried out under the condition that pre-test is covariance.
The results of this study are as follows. All indexes which were used to confirm the homogeneity of test group and comparison group show that the two groups are homogeneous.
This study showed an positive effect on the decrease of depression and aggression. Consequently, child centered play therapy was proven to be effective to decrease the depression and aggression of the residential children.
key word: residential children, child centered play therapy, depression, aggression