The Practical Research About Group Play Therapy On Children With Autism

The purpose of our thesis is to draw a Group Play Therapy for the children with autism on the base of the relative literature, figure out the interventional method and discuss the relationship between behavior characteristics and changing process of autism in play.Base on the relative literature, the theoretic description of the Group Play Therapy model which consist of three-level models and six selected factors is raised. The objects of our research are four children of mild autism. Taking group play therapy as independent variable which contains twenty times and using the frequency of sixty minutes a time, once a week. The instrument in this study is "Autistic children’s behavior assessment code lists". At the same time, we consider the emotions and sight as dependent variable. In all, our paper explores autistic children’s group play therapy intervention effect, analyzes the behaviour of the game in the children’s group characteristics and the process of change. In the last, we prove the performance of our intervene by further interview with the parents.The conclusions of our thesis:1. Interventions effect(1)The effect of group play therapy is obvious from the quantitative analysis of observation which reflected in the frequency of positive emotions and looking at others are rising.(2)The parents think the change of behavior is huge which close to80%and have a positive attitude on the group play therapy.2. The Process of change(1) The number of occurrence of special event is decreasing. Meanwhile, the number will increase when the events affect the emotions of group.(2) The relationship with interventional teacher is negative during the early stages of group (the first three weeks). With the establishment of the group trust and the strengthening of cooperation between companion, members and the teacher’s positive relation increase gradually.(3) The relationship has been turned to positive from negative by the most of members.(4) The way of expressing emotions have been changed more and more reasonable along with the further step of group game.(5) The members have showed a little negative in the early step. However, members participate in games show very high enthusiasm in the further step.