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Kottman, Terry, An Ethnographic Study of An Adlerian
Play Therapy Training Program. Doctor of Philosophy
(Counselor Education), December, 1987, 274 pp., 28 tables,
bibliography, 144 titles.
This study utilized ethnomethodology to provide a
description of the process and the effect of training
counselors to incorporate the concepts and techniques of
Individual Psychology into play therapy. Transcripts of
the training program and of three individual interviews
with the nine counselors who participated in the training
were made. These transcripts and the journals in which the
subjects were asked to chronicle their personal experiences
and reactions to the training were qualitatively analyzed.
This analysis indicated that most of the subjects reported
that their attitudes toward play therapy, toward themselves
as play therapists, and toward their play therapy clients
had changed after their participation in the Adlerian play
therapy training. The majority of subjects also reported
that they perceived that their behavior in their play
therapy sessions had changed, frequently in the direction
of including more creative and active techniques.
Qualitative analysis of the transcripts made from
videotaped play therapy sessions by the researcher and an
outside evaluator indicated that, while some of the
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Kottman, Terry. An Ethnographic Study of an Adlerian Play Therapy Training Program, dissertation, December 1987; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332041/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .