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KMID : 1148220170130010107
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2017 Volume.13 No. 1 p.107 ~ p.135
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A Case Study on Gestalt Group Art Therapy Program to Improve Self-esteem and Peer Relational Skills of North Korean Refugee Children
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Jeung Soon-Teak
Oh Hyun-Sook
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Abstract
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This study examines the effects of group art-therapy on North Korean refugee children's self-esteem and peer relational skills by applying Gestalt theory. The study was conducted once a week for 90 minutes each time for 16 sessions in total at a North Korean Refugee Children Care Center in K city. The subjects were three North Korean refugee children in the lower grades and three South Korean school children from the care center were recruited to form a control group. The methodology used in this study was 'self-esteem measure'. It was developed by Bo-ga Choi and Gui-yeon Jeon(1993) and revised by Sang-gil Choi(2005) based on research by Coopersmith(1967) and McChale and Chaighead(1988). Peer relational skills scale for children and adolescents(PRS-AC) was used for measuring peer relational skills, which was developed by Yoon-ran Yang(2004) based on previous studies(Caldarella & Merrell, 1997; Gresham & Elliott, 1990). Some vocabularies in PRS-AC were revised for North Korean refugee children through Cronbach's reliability test. Furthermore, pre- and post-therapy HTP painting test were carried out in order to detect unconscious changes which are not easily measured in traditional art theories or methods For qualitative analysis of their behavioral change, additional group was selected by another group of survey assistants equivalent to this study design criteria, and investigated by the typical research methods conducted in this study. The results of this study showed that Gestalt group art-therapy helps improve the subjects' self-esteem and peer relational skills.
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KEYWORD
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North Korean Refugee Children, Self-esteem, Peer Relational Skill, Gestalt
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