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This study aimed to comprehensively examine research trends and structural characteristics in domestic play therapy research over the past decade using text mining techniques. For this purpose, a total of 306 domestic journal articles related to play therapy, indexed in the Korean Citation Index (KCI) and published between 2016 and September 2025, were selected, and their Korean titles and abstracts were analyzed. The collected data were preprocessed using the Komoran morphological analyzer based on Python, and TF, TF-IDF, N-gram analysis, keyword network centrality analysis, and the Louvain clustering algorithm were conducted using Textom. The results revealed that “children” and “play therapists” functioned as core keywords across the research corpus, and that play therapist-related variables played a central role within the research network. Furthermore, play therapy research was structured into five major communities: Emotional, Behavioral, and Social Problems; Professional Competency Development and Growth of Play Therapists; Change and Growth within the Sandplay Therapy Process; Parent-Child Relationship; Research Methodology and Program Development. These findings indicate that domestic play therapy research has expanded and differentiated within a multilayered structure. In particular, the results suggest the need for future studies to structurally examine play therapist related factors in relation to therapeutic process variables. This study makes a meaningful contribution by providing an integrated overview of play therapy research trends within a relational and network-based structural framework.

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