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Sandplay -- A New Correctional Treatment for Criminal Psychology

LI Huijun, LEI Dan

Forensic Science Seminar · 2013 · Volume 3 · Issue 2 · pp. 79–81

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In recent years, Sandplay has been gradually known and applied to psychological consultation. Comparing with traditional psychological consultation, sandplay has its particular advantages for prisoners with inferiority feeling and introvert personality. It can create a more free and protective space for the prisoners, playing an important role in correcting individual psychology, establishing good relations among convicts, group counseling and encouragement and assistance from family members,etc . It has become a tool for psychological consultants of policemen to establish good counseling relations and draw prisoners to accept consultancy initiatively and it also has promoted the development of psychological consultation and treatment in prisons.

Keywords: Sandplay; Convict; Psychological correctional treatment

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