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KMID : 1094520110140030093
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Korean Journal of Play Therapy
2011 Volume.14 No. 3 p.93 ~ p.105
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The Effects of Animal-assisted Therapy on Aggression and Depression of Children of Family Violence Women Victims
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Song Yu-No
Kim Jong-Shu
Cho Jae-Hyeon
Kim Chung-Hui
Park Bae-Kun
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Abstract
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This study was designed to investigate the effects of animal-assisted therapy program on aggression and depression by comparing before and after each therapy for children of women victims of family violence at shelters. Data were collected from sixteen children of 7～12 years old showing aggression and depression from M family violence shelter in Jinju. A single therapy was performed weekly, up to 12 times. The criteria of aggression and depression consist of 5 and 20 questions, respectively. The aggression and depression were shown to reduce by 12% and 6.65%, respectively, in 8 children of the family violence women victims at shelters at the completion of the therapies. The animal-assisted therapy
program exerts more pronounced effect on aggression than depression. The results suggest that the animal-assisted therapy program may serve as an effective method to ameliorate the aggression and depression of children of family violence women victims at shelters.
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KEYWORD
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animal-assisted therapy, aggression, depression
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