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Effects of Group Art Therapy on School Adjustment of Maladaptive Behavior Children

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2014, 22(2), pp.126-152
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2014.22.2.126
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 15, 2014
  • Accepted : November 12, 2014

KIM EUN HYE 1 Jung, Seon Hwa 2

1한영신학대학교
2경인여자대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of group art therapy on the school adjustability of maladjusted children. The subjects in this study were nine selected children who were in their first, second and third grades in an elementary school located in an urban community, Gyeonggi Province. The selected children participated in after-school programs. The level of their maladjusted behavior and school adjustment was tested, and the KSD test was conducted to make a qualitative analysis of their school adjustment with teachers and peers. As a result, there was a significant decrease in the maladjusted behavior of the maladjusted children to whom a group art therapy was provided. In the pretest, they scored low in peer relationship, class participation and self-control that were the subfactors of school adjustment, but they showed a significant rise of scores in school adjustment after they engaged in the group art therapy activities. In the KSD test, there were negative descriptions in their pretest drawings, which showed that they were alone without mingling with their friends, fought with them or pointed a gun or knife at them. In the posttest drawings, however, they worked out with their peers or described themselves and friends in various ways. Some explained their drawings in detail, and the lines that they drew looked softer. Thus, the children who had showed maladjusted behavior underwent positive changes in peer relationship, way of looking at school life and emotional psychology.

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