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KMID : 1037320150080020093
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Korean Journal of Infant Mental Health
2015 Volume.8 No. 2 p.93 ~ p.115
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A Case Study of Art Therapy for Emotional Expression of a Child from an Immigrated Multicultural Family
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Kim Yeon-Jeong
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Abstract
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This is a case study of a third-grade elementary school girl who was born in Vietnam and came to Korea due to remarriage of her mother. Since her younger sister’s birth, she felt awkward in the family and began to speak less with her parents. She showed the behavioral pattern of being obsessed with whatever her sister had and abandoning the things immediately after she got them by teasing for them. She was referred to the Multicultural Center because she seldom told her parents nor expressed her feeling. Based on the recent research that the approach of art therapy helping to experience the corrective emotion was effective for multicultural family counseling, ten sets of art therapy counseling were performed to help the child express herself comfortably. The counseling goals were to develop trust with the counselor and enable her to express her opinion fluently by experiencing autonomy and emotional expression through a variety of art media. In
the initial stage of counseling, understanding the child’s characteristics and developing trust relationship were the top priorities. When half of the counseling sessions were completed, the focus was placed on securing psychological stability with the counselor to allow the child to express her demands and acknowledge and accept her bilateral feelings on her family. She began to express her feelings and demands to her family. The art therapeutic approach to psychological
discomfort and intimidated emotion caused by adaptation to new language, culture, and family, which were common among children of immigrated multicultural families, helped the child to recognize her desires and express her feelings naturally.
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KEYWORD
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immigration, multicultural family, emotional expression, art therapy
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