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The purpose of this study is to carry out family play therapy targeting dual-income families and is to examine about components of the experienced parent-child interaction in the process of family play therapy and about a change in parent-child interaction before and after participation. The interaction on ‘emotional contact,’ ‘emotional giving and taking,’ and ‘emotional support & acceptance ’ was experienced through the family play therapy of dual-income families in this study. Family members experienced comfort, a naturally physical contact, and pleasure & sympathy of being together and experienced the wait for demand and the positive self-expression. In the meantime, the emotional interaction between parents and children came to be more active. Moreover, as a result of analyzing through MIM test before and after carrying out the family play therapy, the parent-child interaction in dual-income families was changed into the positive interaction in the dimension of structure, challenge, intervention and rearing. On the other hand, in the post-test, the parents were happened the emotional interaction such as accepting, encouraging and praising children naturally. Children were shown the natural expression and the demand, and well follow parents' suggestion with giving and taking pleasant activity. In conclusion, the family play therapy can be considered to be effective for positive influence upon parent-child interaction in dual-income families.