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KMID : 1001720100200020205
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Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation
2010 Volume.20 No. 2 p.205 ~ p.234
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A study on the effects of a group music therapy for people with intellectual impairments on vocational readiness
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Hwang Jun-Sung
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Abstract
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This study is aimed to find the effects of improvements on building relationships and social skills of mentally disabled job seekers through group music therapy program. Total of twenty mentally disabled people from the rehabilitation facility located in D metropolitan city were selected for this research. They were second-degree mentally disabled individuals who had not been able to participate in any of the facility programs and have SQ below 24 and IQ between 35 and 49. The group music therapy program was performed after dividing twenty people into two grOUps: ten people were set as an experimental group to take the music therapy program and the rest of them that could not take the program were set to be the control group.
The group music therapy program lasted 45minutes, once a week for 13 weeks period from September 2009 to December 2009. As a research tool, Social Skills Rating System(SSRS) developed by Gresham & Elliott(1990) and reorganized into 3 main parts (cooperation, assertion, and self control) by Kim-Hyung Ji(1996 was used. The checklist for building social relationships was reorganized by a researcher, considering 10 questions that derived from 14 scales in "Personality Factor Questionnaire(Catell)". The data were analyzed through SPSS statistical program as follows:
The results were proven as follows:
First, the group music therapy had a positive effect on social skill improvements to mentally disabled adult job seekers.
Second, the group music therapy had a positive effect on building social relationship to mentally disabled job seekers.
Thus, it was proven that the group music therapy had positive effects on improvements on social skills to mentally disabled job seekers and also under the sub category-cooperation, assertion, and self-control. Moreover, it had positive effects on building social relationships. After all, the group music therapy have positive influences to mentally disabled job seekers who are preparing to get jobs.
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KEYWORD
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group music therapy, intellectual impairments, vocational readiness
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