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The Effects of Sandplay Therapy on Improving the Self-Differentiation, Depression, and Mother-Child Relationship of Mothers with Teenage Children

The purpose of this study was to identify the effects of sandplay therapy on decreasing the depression of mothers with teenage children, enhancing their self-differentiation, and improving their mother-child relationship. To this end, this study’s subjects were divided into a test group of five people and a control group of five people, which consisted of mothers who had teenage children. Sandplay therapy was conducted on these groups for ten weeks in fifty-minute sessions. The study’s tools included tests for the Differentiation of Self Scale, Beck Depression Index (BDI) and Mother-Child Relationship Index. The Wilcoxon signed-rank test and the Mann-Whitney U test were performed to process the data. This study’s results showed that sandplay therapy enhances the self-differentiation of mothers with teenage children, decreases their depression, and facilitates harmonious mother-child relationships.