Abstract (eng)
In child-centered playtherapy the main medium of communication is the child's play, since it re-presents the child's way of expressing him or herself. During the play therapy process the therapist not only communicates with the child on a playful level but also on a verbal level. From the begin-ning, the therapist's verbal response was seen as a central therapeutic intervention in child-centered playtherapy. With the rise of a new interactional approach in child-centered playtherapy, the therapist's verbal response as a principle of intervention was pushed to the background. It is bearly men-tioned in current literature, and also recent studies concerning the effectiveness of the therapist's behaviour in child-centered play therapy do not treat verbal response as relevant for a therapeutic successs. In this thesis, I am investigating the relevance of verbal response in the therapy process of child-centered psychotherapy from a current point of view.