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KMID : 1148220110070040027
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2011 Volume.7 No. 4 p.27 ~ p.56
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A study of a "mother-loss" child’s 'lived relationship' during art therapy
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Kim Hyo-Eun
Hong Eun-Joo
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Abstract
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This study has started from the interest on ‘life experiences of a child who has experienced the loss of a mother. The research object was a twelve year old girl, in her six grade, who had experienced mother-loss and showing symptoms of depression. From September 15, 2008 to July, 2009, she went through 29 times of art therapy program, once a week, sixty minutes each session. Especially bringing in analytic phenomenology by Van Manen(1994), this study focuses on more of the meaning of experience through art therapy. The study results are summarized asfollows: (1) Based on trust and the sense of closeness which a child had developed with the art therapist, she could jump over to a relationship with others as she pursues ‘the process of finding oneself.’ (2) As a child sees and appreciates her own art pieces, she understands her experiences in the past and become experiences of the present ‘I’. In so doing she gets to self examination and discernment through experiencing a "rebirth of ‘I’" as she finds the hopeful ‘I’ as distinct from the ‘I’ in the past. (3) Through the relationship between the child and the art therapist, she gets to have different perception about ‘I’. Through this study, it was confirmed that receptive, supportive, and sensitive care from the art therapist, positive therapeutic factors of art media, and the relationship between a child and the art therapist are important therapeutic variables for a child’s life and development who had lost her mother.
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KEYWORD
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Mother-loss child, Art therapy, 'Lived relationship'
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