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In this article, comparisons between North Korean adolescent defectors and South Korean adolescents in psychological themes and stories expressed in sandplay therapy about their family and self/others have been made in order to provide basic data to psychotherapeutically intervention for the North Korean adolescent defectors' psychological and social adjustment in South Korean culture. The 15 adolescents were allocated in each group. The North Korean adolescent defectors started to live in South Korea since less than 5 years ago and they all had already experienced parents' absence when they still lived in North Korea and murderous threats when they were defecting North Korea through foreign countries. Total 4 sandplay sessions were individually given to each subject. The main psychological themes of sandpictures and stories were compared by Sandpaly Categorical Checklist and Story Expression Checklist respectively. Results are as follows: More North Korean adolescent defectors made scenes of the theme related to alienation/loneliness and less made scenes of organization/structuralization and integration than the South Korean adolescents. Also, more North Korean adolescent defectors expressed about their family in terms of parental absence and traumatic experiences. Furthermore, more North Korean adolescent defectors expressed their family negatively and the less positively than the South Korean adolescents. About the self expression, more North Korean defector adolescents expressed themselves in the negative ways and more South Korean adolescents expressed in the positive ways. In terms of expressions about others, more South Korean adolescents expressed others positively and less negatively than North Korean adolescents defectors.
