Dibs in Search of Self Research Proposal

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The room provided space and some materials that might lend themselves to the emergence of personalities of the children who might spend time there. The ingredients of experience would make the room uniquely different for each child. Here a child might search the silence for old sounds, shout out his discoveries of a self momentarily captured, and so escape from the prison of his uncertainties, anxieties, and fears. He brings into this room the impact of all the shapes and sounds and colours and movements, and rebuilds his world, reduced to a size he can handle. (Axline 1964, p.22)

Axline's observations of Dibs led to a demonstrative understanding of his fears and needs and the surrounding, i.e. play therapy gave him full permission to interact and react to the world as he saw fit, and to such a degree that his skills and actual intelligence became known.

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The book taught me two crucial things, one that outward behavior does not always express inward ability and two that very few children are lost causes, all having unexpected skill and ability that will serve them in their life if they can incorporate them into their environment. The work made me feel as if there was a purpose for therapy and especially with children who are demonstratively disturbed. It also made me wonder just how much parental or other interactions have to do with how a child responds to his environment. All the information received from the mother was helpful but did not seem to stress anything out of the ordinary with regard to how Dibs was cared for, excluding the seemed disassociation he may have felt from his father, which seemed to become displaced to everything around him......

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