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KMID : 1037320110040020101
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2011 Volume.4 No. 2 p.101 ~ p.119
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A Case Study on Art-Therapy for a Child with Selective Mutism
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Kim Mi-Hee
Park Sung-Ok
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Abstract
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This study is intended to investigate effectiveness of art therapy for a child with selective mutism. The research subject was a 10-year-old child at the 5th grade of elementary school who tried to work hard but failed to achieve higher academic accomplishments than before. The child’s homeroom teacher asked for counseling in order to identify the child’s sociality, cognitive process, and psychological problems. The child hardly got along and talked with her peers at school as well as in a private institute. Her mother reported that she suffered a great deal of stress due to early maturation of her body and relations with her brother. The child had selective mutism. She felt intimidated and unstable emotionally; she did not feel free to express herself. Art therapy was administered for 20 individual sessions. In the beginning, she avoided eye contact with the therapist and crouched in the counseling room. During the art therapy, she hesitated to make choices and felt uneasy and nervous in strange situations. As the sessions progressed, she tried to make eye contact with the therapist and was in tears when the therapist read her feeling. She also became much more active in making choices. Her mother reported that she read a book loudly enough for her classmates to hear in class. This study implemented individual art therapy for a child with selective mutism in order to reduce the child’s psychological withdrawal, depression, and anxiety. Pre- and post-results of K-CBCL and behavioral observation showed that psychological withdrawal, depression, and anxiety could be reduced by art therapy.
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KEYWORD
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art therapy, selective mutism, withdrawal, depression, anxiety
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