A Phenomenological Study of the Sandplay Therapy Expression of Six Immigrants’ \nPsychological Adaptation in Quebec
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Abstract
This dissertation reports the results of a qualitative investigation of the individual psychological experiences of adaptation to a new socio-cultural environment of six adult participants with immigrant backgrounds. The experiences were expressed through Sandplay Therapy sessions in the form of verbal accounts and three-dimensional expressions in the form of sandpictures. The research design was based on the Descriptive Phenomenological Psychological Method (DPPM) which helped to uncover what the Sandplay Therapy expressions of immigrants in Quebec reveal about their psychological adaptation to their new environment. The data were collected over a period of sixteen months through Sandplay Therapy sessions and included the following categories: the written verbal accounts of the experiences; the therapist’s process notes and comments; and the visual data in the form of photographs and maps of the created sandpictures. Data analysis included the analysis of the transcription of the sessions and of the sandpictures, for which the perspective of the Kalffian model of Sandplay analysis and Jungian theory was used. The findings suggest relations among the imagery representing the participants’ experiences (in the form of the sandpictures); the underlining psychological processes unfolding in the participants’ psyche; and the conscious understanding of the experience of adaptation voiced by the participants. The research participants presented patterns in their expressions linking their experiences of adaptation to the unfolding of the specific psychological processes that were revealed through the images.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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