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The Study of a Group Art Therapy Program and its Effectiveness to Decrease the Maladaptive Perfectionism of Adolescents

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2005, 5(), pp.285-320
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : September 30, 2005
  • Accepted : November 10, 2005

SooMyungShim 1

1국제신학대학원대학교

ABSTRACT

Adolescents with high perfectionism tend to feel guilty and humble themselves too much because they are obsessed by the feeling that they cannot reach the goal set by themselves and are unable to satisfy anyone with their behaviors. Also, they consider God as the Being that can never be pleased by them, so the feelings of doubts, disobedience and even hostility against God always overwhelm them, Therefore, in order for them to be recovered to the image of God as originally created, they should receive God’s grace given to them in Jesus Christ. To satisfy these needs, this study was researched to develop a group art therapy program to decrease the perfectionism of adolescents and to test its effectiveness. Also this study was intended to examine whether the developed program can be applied at churches and schools. The targets of the main research were the 40 second-grade middle-school students who were willing to participate in this test. They were selected from the high 30 percentile of perfectionism among the second-graders. The 40 students were divided into two groups, 20 students each. The 20 student group was divided again into two groups, the test group and the control group, 10 students a group. The group art therapy program was carried out after school for 7 months 2 to 3 times per week over 20 sessions, each session lasting 90 to 120 minutes. In order to verify the effectiveness of the program, MPS(Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale), was chosen as a quantitative analytical tool and a pre-post repeated dispersion measure was made to compare the average differences of each group. For qualitative analysis, the observation of behavioral and emotional change of the participants and the group process evaluation were carried out each session. The study result could be summarized as below. First, the group art therapy program was effective in decreasing the perfectionism of the adolescents with high perfectionism. Second, the adolescents with high perfectionism showed a positive change in their emotion and behavior during each session. Third, the evaluation and the response of the adolescents with high perfectionism to the group art therapy was very positive. Therefore, this program which was developed as an alternative to lower the perfectionism of the adolescents is expected to be effectively applied at churches and schools.

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