Transformative self-discoveries for a preschool child : from a passive to an agentic lifeposition

Van Heukelum, Gudrun

dc.contributor.advisor	Schoeman, J. P.	en
dc.contributor.author	Van Heukelum, Gudrun	en
dc.date.accessioned	2009-08-25T10:47:12Z
dc.date.available	2009-08-25T10:47:12Z
dc.date.issued	2003-06
dc.date.submitted	2003-06-30	en
dc.identifier.citation	Van Heukelum, Gudrun (2003) Transformative self-discoveries for a preschool child : from a passive to an agentic lifeposition, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/840>	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/840
dc.description.abstract	This explorative case study was undertaken to uncover how transformative self-discoveries were facilitated through Gestalt playtherapy, enabling agency of a single pre-school participant. Data were captured around the participant's baseline agentic status; emerging agency, facilitated trough the intervention and post-intervention agentic status. A content analysis aided thematic coding. Theme 1 identified inherent agency trends and the agency blocks "what is that". Theme 2 dealt with patterns of active resistance "I don't want to feel / I don't want to know". Theme 3 captured enhanced agentic behaviour "I can and I understand". Through the intervention the participant's entrapped agency was unleashed, leading to an awareness of her `being', enabling her `doing' and thereby allowing her to `become'. Enabled agency increased the participant's active involvement in her life and her engagement in developmental tasks was increased. Implications of the findings support further investigation and application of this intervention.	en
dc.format.extent	1 online resource (164 leaves)
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.subject	Agency	en
dc.subject	Gestalt playtherapy	en
dc.subject	Preschool development	en
dc.subject	Resistance	en
dc.subject	Being doing and becoming	en
dc.subject	Developmental task fulfillment	en
dc.subject	Self-discoveries	en
dc.subject	Paediatric occupational therapy	en
dc.subject	Health promotion	en
dc.subject	Self-regulation in infants	en
dc.subject	Self-disposition	en
dc.subject	Well-being	en
dc.subject	Ego-development	en
dc.subject	Phenomenological context	en
dc.subject	Adverse environments	en
dc.subject.ddc	155.413
dc.subject.lcsh	Self-reliance in children
dc.subject.lcsh	Ego (Psychology)
dc.subject.lcsh	Learning, Psychology of
dc.subject.lcsh	Child psychology
dc.subject.lcsh	Developmental psychology
dc.subject.lcsh	Gestalt therapy
dc.subject.lcsh	Play therapy
dc.subject.lcsh	Pre-school child
dc.subject.lcsh	Self-efficacy
dc.title	Transformative self-discoveries for a preschool child : from a passive to an agentic lifeposition	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
dc.description.department	Educational Studies	en
dc.description.degree	M. Diac (Play Therapy)	en