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KMID : 1148220170130010137
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2017 Volume.13 No. 1 p.137 ~ p.165
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The Research of the Invention and Evaluation of Effects in Art Therapy Game 「e-Therapy Tangram Activity」
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Han Joo-Yeun
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Abstract
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The art therapy game places a key therapeutic motive on two factors: purification that is brought by artistic elements and satisfaction that is acquired from mutual communication and expression. This feature distinguishes the art therapy game from the therapeutic functional game, which only focuses on the treatment of cognitive behaviors. This research conducts the development of art therapy game that applies the elements of art therapy in digital game format and review the effectiveness of the activities. The art therapy game is the magic circle that guarantees the perfect freedom of expression; it acts as the safe activity place to experience the emotional change, creation, and failure. In addition to this, it has the ambivalence aspects such as conscious and unconscious, reality and imagination, material and form, creation and destruction and offers the alternative world that the users can concentrate on their behavior. The art therapy game 「e-Therapy Tangram activity」is the expressive arts therapy that includes the guided imagery visual aid and narrative practice treatment to expect the enhancing the self-respect and relaxing the emotion. In order to examine the effects in arts therapy game, the 12 numbers of juveniles who are on probation and 9 at Orphanage are used in the experiment. As a result, the adolescents commonly showed significant improvements in self-regulation and aggression. The research finds that this game allows the voluntary participation of juveniles and the reduction of resentment. The research also contributes to the assessment in effectiveness of the group art therapy game that it helps to generate the positive emotion and increase in communication to alienated adolescents.
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KEYWORD
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Art Therapy Game, Interactivity, Magic Circle, Alienated Adolescents, Self-regulation
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