Abstract
The purpose of this study was to clarify the nursing method to help the growth of an early adolescent case who refused to go to school. The Subject was a girl with a history of long absence from school in early adolescence whose main symptom was test-fear. I gave her support based on one-to-one interviews and play therapy. This study was considered from a psycho- dynamical point of view on these three points : 1) the core meaning of the problem of the case, 2) the factor to help the growth of the case, 3 ) the relation between her ego-development and the extention of adaptability to social life. This was the summary of effects. 1 understood that the conflict with school was caused by a value judgement introjected by her mother, due to the dependent feeling on her mother. Ego-suppotive nursing served to join her suffering feeling with awareness, and the maintenance of time and space in which to recognize the meaning of her internal experiences enabled her to find a clue to encouragement new self-formation. When her self recognition stabilized, the ability of external perception and recognition of the real improved. It extended her social behavior such as making close friends and adapting to school life.
