Midterm Requirement in Abnormal Psychology
Name: Ladera, Krizette
Title of the Journal Article:
Dissociative Identity Disorder Revealed Through Play Therapy: A Case Study of a Four- Year- Old
Author/s: Marilyn S. Snow, Ed. S. JoAnna White, Ed. D. Llyod Pilkington, M.S. Darlene Beckman, M.S.
Journal form where the study was taken:
Journal of Dissociation Vol. VIII No.2
Date of Publication: June 1995
a) Introduction:
The case study will illustrate how Play Therapy can identify an emerging pattern of dissociative identity disorder to a four years old girl.
b) Case presentation:
The patient experienced having nightmares, ear aches during sleep and clinging behavior. When the therapist interviewed the father and the step mother of the child, the couple narrated how the unusual behavior began after a few visit to her biological mother’s house. The therapist then asked the couple if there were any circumstances where the child called herself with other names and the couple said no, so the therapist decided to have the child come for a weekly play therapy, the …show more content…
After so many sessions, the therapy cannot really be proclaimed as a successful treatment because the treatment was not finished due to the fact that the family and the therapist discovered that the father also has a DID and the family and the therapist were having a hard time with the father’s behavior as a result that the therapy has been stopped. Although the therapist had lost contact with the family, the therapist was able to present at least four identities in the course of the therapy which resulted that the case of Leigh was labeled as a Dissociative Identity Disorder and it was a great example of Kluft’s Etiological factor of biological capacity dissociate and it may also be learned response to
Name: Ladera, Krizette
Title of the Journal Article:
Dissociative Identity Disorder Revealed Through Play Therapy: A Case Study of a Four- Year- Old
Author/s: Marilyn S. Snow, Ed. S. JoAnna White, Ed. D. Llyod Pilkington, M.S. Darlene Beckman, M.S.
Journal form where the study was taken:
Journal of Dissociation Vol. VIII No.2
Date of Publication: June 1995
a) Introduction:
The case study will illustrate how Play Therapy can identify an emerging pattern of dissociative identity disorder to a four years old girl.
b) Case presentation:
The patient experienced having nightmares, ear aches during sleep and clinging behavior. When the therapist interviewed the father and the step mother of the child, the couple narrated how the unusual behavior began after a few visit to her biological mother’s house. The therapist then asked the couple if there were any circumstances where the child called herself with other names and the couple said no, so the therapist decided to have the child come for a weekly play therapy, the …show more content…
After so many sessions, the therapy cannot really be proclaimed as a successful treatment because the treatment was not finished due to the fact that the family and the therapist discovered that the father also has a DID and the family and the therapist were having a hard time with the father’s behavior as a result that the therapy has been stopped. Although the therapist had lost contact with the family, the therapist was able to present at least four identities in the course of the therapy which resulted that the case of Leigh was labeled as a Dissociative Identity Disorder and it was a great example of Kluft’s Etiological factor of biological capacity dissociate and it may also be learned response to