'n Gestaltspelterapiehulpprogram in maatskaplike werk vir juniorprimêre skoolkinders se emosionele intelligensie

[摘要] English: The increasing emphasis world wide on the importance of emotional intelligence skills withregard to the adjustment of the child as a whole, as well as the increasing measure to whichemotional problems are found to be occurring in children, serve as the main motivation for thisstudy. This study focuses on the design and development of a gestalt play therapy aielprogramme that concentrates on the emotional intelligence of junior primary school chi lelren, bymeans of an exploratory and descriptive investigation. A programme such as this could possiblybe airned al providing scientifically based social work service rendering to junior primaryschool children. The first four phases of the intervention research design and developmentmodel are used as the research design. Intervention research is regarded as suitable because, asapplied research, it focuses on the highlighting of. or the offering of possible solutions to,practical problems that normally include certain forms of intervention.A literature study is undertaken, during which a theoretical perspective on both emotionalintelligence and gestalt therapy is offered. Furthermore. aspects influencing the emotionalcompetence components of the junior primary school child's emotional intelligence as well asplay therapy techniques and activities from a gestalt theoretical perspective are brought intofocus, and these may be used in an aid programme for the emotional intelligence of juniorprimary school children. Abilities and skills with regard to two personal emotional competencecomponents, namely self-awareness and emotional self regulation, as well as two interpersonalemotional competence components, namely empathy and the regulation of emotions in others,are selected as emotional competence components of the emotional intelligence of the juniorprimary school child. Although other therapeutic models may be applicable, the gestalt playtherapeutic approach is used for the development of an aid programme for these components.The reason for this is that the aims and theoretical starting points of this approach arecompatible with the skills which should be mastered by the junior primary school child withregard to the emotional competence components of his emotional intelligence.To complement the literature study. an empirical study has also been undertaken. This takesthe form of a qualitative study, in which five participants are involved in a draft gestalt playtherapy aid programme relating to their emotional intelligence, for one session per week, for aperiod of twelve weeks. Throughout this programme, their experiences and reactions duringthe programme implementation are obtained by means of direct systematic and participatory observation. After the completion of the programme their parent(s) are involved in an informalinterview, in order to verify the qualitative observations of the researcher during the study. Thequalitative observations made by the researcher during the sessions are described in the fomlofcase studies. The data which has been collected as a result of the case studies may then beanalysed into categories and sub-categories that have been identified fi:om the precedingliterature study.As a result of the study the conclusion is reached that gestalt play therapy offers a suitableframework for an aid programme for the emotional intelligence of junior primary schoolchildren. The aims of the gestalt play therapeutic approach are related to the skills that shouldbe mastered by junior primary school children with regard to the personal emotional competencecomponents of their emotional intelligence. The therapeutic process of gestalt playtherapy and the variety of play therapy techniques and activities that may be utilised from thegestalt theoretical perspective during each phase, offer a logical method by which the skills ofjunior primary school children may be integrated. with regard to the emotional competencecomponents of their emotional intelligence. Recommendations with regard to the content andcourse of the programme, as well as to training and further research. are formulated as a resultof the conclusions.

[发布机构] University of the Free State