Objective:To study the effect of sand-play therapy on psychological obstacle of epileptic children. Methods:Forty epileptic children without severe somatic and mental disease who visited neurology clinic of the Children’s Hospital of Chongqing Medical University were included. These children were randomly and averagely separated into experimental group and control group. Besides

forty health children were also included as normal control group. The experimental group received sand-play therapy while receiving drug treatment for 20 weeks. The control group had drug treatment only. The normal control group had no treatment. Symptom Checklist90（SCL-90）was conducted before and after treatment for epileptic children and for normal children. Results:（1）Compared with normal control group

the epileptic children had higher score of somatization（1.97±0.59）

obsessive-compulsive（2.85±0.55）

interpersonal sensitivity（3.12 ±0.74）

depression（3.22 ±0.85）

anxiety（3.15 ±0.66）

hostility（3.93 ±0.94）

phobia（2.34 ±0.72）

paranoid（3.15±0.81）

ideation（2.93±0.78）

psychoticism before treatment（P<0.05）.（2）For children of experimental group

the scores of the factors mentioned above were all lower than that of control group after treatment（P<0.05）.（3）For children of experimental group

the scores of the factors mentioned above were all lower after treatment（P<0.05）. Conclusion:Psychological obstacle exists in children with epilepsy. Sand-play therapy is an effective treatment to improve epileptic children’s psychological state.