Anxiety is a kind of emotional state, which is mainly manifested as nervous physiological symptoms and worry about the future. Preschoolers' anxiety is not only harmful to their physical health, but also to their intellectual, emotional and social development. If the effective intervention were not timely, it would continue into adolescence and adulthood. Because preschoolers are restricted in speech communication, self-regulation and active participation in treatment, the implementation of traditional psychological counseling methods is difficult. The essence of Sandplay therapy is non-verbal and symbolic, which can effectively overcome the limitations of preschoolers' imperfect language expression and self-regulation difficulties. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of Spontaneous Individual Sandplay Therapy(SIST) and Restrictive Group Sandplay Therapy(RGST) on preschoolers' anxiety and to explore whether there are differences between the two treatments on the intervention effect.In this study, the anxiety level of 202 preschoolers aged from 3 to 6 years from Zhengzhou were tested by Spence Preschool Anxiety Scale. 30 members with high-level of anxiety were selected and randomly divided into three equal groups. During three months of testing, the first group was taken as the individual- intervention group, and received SIST once a week; the second group was taken as the group- intervention group, and received RGST once a week; in addition, the last group was taken as the control group without any intervention. The results showed that both Spontaneous Individual Sandplay Therapy and Restrictive Group Sandplay Therapy are feasible to reduce the anxiety level of preschoolers, and there is no significant differences between the two treatments on the intervention effect.The following conclusions are drawn:1. Both Spontaneous Individual Sandplay Therapy and Restrictive Group Sandplay Therapy have siginficant effect on reducing the anxiety of preschoolers;2. There are no significant differences on the intervention effect of Spontaneous Individual Sandplay Therapy and Restrictive Group Sandplay Therapy on preschoolers' anxiety;3.Preschoolers' output of Sandplay Therapy changes dramatically on different stages;4. Spontaneous Individual Sandplay Therapy works properly in treating the generalized anxiety, fears of physical injury of preschoolers, social phobia and separation anxiety;5. Restrictive Group Sandplay Therapy has significant and extremely significant effects on treating the social phobia and fears of physical injury of preschoolers, respectively.
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