ABSTRACT
The Nepal Youth Foundation (NYF) has established numerous well-staffed residential programs, as well as satellite home locations overseen by resident social workers and foster parent male–female teams. Children taken into these programs will live at the centers, receive health care, good nutrition, education, and counseling throughout their school years. The peer counselors advocate for the children with their educational needs and for their future vocational careers. Sandplay has proven very effective for the children. In this chapter, the author shares share vignettes from the sandplay work of two of NYF Foundation children. Ashi was referred to the counseling center to help with his overeating, stealing, begging, low school performance, and manipulative behaviors. He was age five when he began his sandplay work. In this sandplay, Ashi's psyche directly confronts his many losses, a necessary part of the transformation and healing process. The chapter shows that Ramesh never exhibited any great psychological disturbance or pathology by analysing his sandplay work.
