Evaluation of a sandplay program for preschoolers in a multiethnic neighborhood

• Published in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry Vol. 50; no. 6; pp. 743 - 750
• Main Authors: Rousseau, Cécile, Benoit, Maryse, Lacroix, Louise, Gauthier, Marie-France
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.06.2009; Blackwell Publishing; Blackwell
• Subjects: Adolescent; Asia - ethnology; Asians; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Child psychology; Child, Preschool; Control Groups; Creative Activities; Creative therapy; Creativity; Cultural Diversity; Education; Emigrants and Immigrants; Ethnic Groups; Experimental Groups; Female; Foreign Countries; Humans; Immigrants; Male; Mass Media; Mass Media Effects; Medical sciences; Mental Health; Minority & ethnic groups; Miscellaneous; Multiracial groups; Natural Disasters; Neighborhoods; Neighbourhoods; Noncitizens; Preschool Children; Preschoolers; Prevention; Program Development; Program Evaluation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Questionnaires; Refugees; Sandplay; school; School Health Services; secondary prevention; South Asian people; Surveys and Questionnaires; Treatments; tsunami; Tsunamis; United States; Violence; Violence - psychology; Workshops; Asia; United States; Human; Preschool age; Multiculturalism; Evaluation; secondary prevention; Immigrant; Preschoolers; Tsunami; Residential neighborhoods; Creativity; School environment; Prevention; school; Child; Public health; immigrants

Background:  This evaluative study assesses the efficacy of a school‐based secondary prevention program consisting of creative expression workshops for immigrant and refugee preschoolers in a predominantly South Asian multiethnic neighborhood. Coincidentally, the program began in the wake of the tsu...