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KMID : 1025820160240020187
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Family and Family Therapy
2016 Volume.24 No. 2 p.187 ~ p.206
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Empowerment of Married Immigrant Women at a Shelter with Solution-Focused Art Therapy
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Cho Yun-Joo
Choi Youn-Shil
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to develop a solution-focused art therapy group program to empower married immigrant women staying at a shelter. The study was designed with the intention of helping these women strengthen their inherent problem-solving and other competencies.
Methods: The researchers divided 20 subjects into control and experimental groups, with ten subjects in each. A homogeneity test was conducted. The differences of empowerment from before and after the study, measured via the Wilcoxon signed-rank test, provided sufficient information for a statistical analysis, using SPSS 18.0 and the Mann-Whitney U Test for homogeneity.
Results: The solution-focused art therapy group program showed positive effects for the married immigrant women staying at the shelter. The sub-elements of empowerment (self-esteem, self-efficacy, and sociality) all improved, while powerlessness was reduced.
Conclusions: This study was conducted with the use of active and effective counseling on married immigrant women at a shelter, which allowed for an organic integration of the art therapy, empowerment, and solution-focused counseling. An appropriate utilization of this study seems very promising because it provides baseline data necessary for implementing better therapeutic treatments of married immigrant women in shelters.
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KEYWORD
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shelter, married immigrant women, solution-focused therapy, art program
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