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KMID : 1148220120080030023
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2012 Volume.8 No. 3 p.23 ~ p.45
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Influence of Group Art Therapy Using Molding on Cognitive Functions and Depression of the Elderly with Dementia
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Song Young-Joo
Lee Keun-Mae
Kim Ki-Bo
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Abstract
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The objective of the research is to observe how group art therapy, especially molding, affects the cognitive function and depression of dementia elderly. The target group was 14 elderly with dementia disease at the hospital located in city D. Then, they were divided into two groups, experimental group and control group. The patients in the experimental group were to get art therapy twice a week, 20 times in total. To study the effect, the before-and-after result was analyzed using MMSE-KC and SGDS. Finally, the difference in cognitive function and depression between the experimental group and control group was observed using SPSS Window 13.0 program and t-test was done. The following shows the result of the research. First, after examining the result of MMSE-KC on elderly with the age of 65 or older, the difference after the art therapy was statistically significant. Second, according to the analysis of SGDS, after the art therapy, the dementia elderly depression diminished and the depression was statistically significant. In conclusion, art therapy does have a positive effect for the dementia's patients with psychologically unstable mind, deteriorated cognitive function, and depression. Thus, group art therapy is a helpful program to enhance cognitive function and depression for the patients. In the future, various group art therapy programs will be developed.
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KEYWORD
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Molding, Group art therapy, Cognitive function, Depression
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