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KMID : 1148220120080020071
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2012 Volume.8 No. 2 p.71 ~ p.100
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A Case Study of Story-telling Art Therapy to Increase the Self?expression and Self-esteem of a Child with Selective Mutism
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Baek Yang-Hee
Jung Hyun-Young
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Abstract
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This case study is to examine the impact of storytelling art therapy on self-expression and self-esteem for child with selective mutism. The subject for this case study is a 13-year-old boy, committed on G Art Therapy Institute, diagnosed with selective mutism. The subject had 20 sessions in total and each session was held for 60 minutes once a week from May 8th 2010 to April 23rd, 2011. Self-expression, self-esteem, K-HTP, DAP were used for analyzing the data and qualitative analysis was used. Every session in pre- and post test was held on a child with selective mutism. Research findings are as follows. Firstly, the storytelling art therapy was effective for child with selective mutism to explore his repressed emotional expression and improve self-expression, through processing of express his emotion toward his family. Secondly, the storytelling art therapy was effective on his improvement of self-esteem by having his positive self-image, development of relation skills, and having insight of self-emotion for the child with selective mutism. Thirdly, the child tried to engage on communication and emotional exchanges with other people according to the eyes in K-HTP test. In DAP test, the two arms represented social interaction and the smiling face demonstrated improvement of positive sense of self. There fore, the case study shows that the storytelling art therapy had a positive impact on elevating self-expression and self-esteem for child with selective mutism.
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KEYWORD
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Story-telling Art Therapy, Selective mutism, Self-expression, Self-expression
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