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KMID : 1148220190150040115
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Journal of Arts Psychotherapy
2019 Volume.15 No. 4 p.115 ~ p.138
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A Phenomenological Study of Art Therapist's Experiences on Group Therapy of Children with Developmental Disabilities
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Heo Yae-Jin
Moon Kyung-Ah
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Abstract
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This study aims to carefully examine the experiences of art therapists as noted in the group therapy of children with developmental disabilities. For this purpose, the researcher conducted in-depth interviews with seven art therapists about their experiences on the group therapy of children with developmental disabilities. After that each interview was analyzed using the phenomenological method of Amedeo Giorgi(2009). The results include 15 sub-categories and 6 components, which included: positive factor, structural difficulty, professional difficult, therapeutic intervention factor, factor for improving difficulty, and professional development. In this sense, the art therapist had witnessed the therapeutic power of group while performing group therapy on children with developmental disabilities and recognized that group therapy should be facilitative environment where clients can function entirely. Meanwhile, art therapists had experienced group dynamics, art intervention and structural difficulties due to children with developmental disabilities in groups in the process of group therapy. To overcome such difficulties, they had made various efforts and have grown professionally using these techniques. Finally, this study is meaningful in that it explored experiences of group therapy of children with developmental disabilities by art therapists in depth, and aims to provide this as fundamental data on the fields of group art therapy on children with developmental disabilities.
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KEYWORD
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Art Therapist, Children with Developmental Disabilities, Group Therapy, Phenomenological Qualitative Study
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