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This study aims at measuring the effect of group art therapy using mandala and collage on enhancement of concentration and self-esteem of children from broken homes. The results of the study are presented as follows: First, this study examines the transitional aspects of the subjects by the program using mandala and collage and finds that the post K-HTP shows positive changes in comparison with the pre- K-HTP. Second, this study provides group art therapy for the subjects and compares their scores of concentration. All the subjects show significant difference in concentration as follows: from more than 75T to less than 60 T. Third, when the program is provided for the subject to examine the transitional aspects of their self-esteem, their self-esteem is enhanced, through which the effect of the program is demonstrated. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that group art therapy using mandala and collage designed to enhance concentration and self-esteem of children from broken homes is effective in enhancement of concentration and self-esteem, and the program helps the subjects have internal power to see their internal sides through self-seeking, self-expression, self-recognition and self-acceptance, emotional support and psychological stability.

This research analyzes how much dance/mouvement therapy would influence on a group of elementary school children's anger expression and self respect. It has been known that dance/mouvement therapy is more or less helpful in treating these problems. dance/mouvement therapy was expected to make suitable anger expression and improve self-respect. The main results are summarized as follows. First, even though the statistically meaningful evidence was not totally observed in all respects, in some aspects such as anger expression, the result showed that dance/mouvement therapy could reduce the frequency and degree of anger expression considerably. Second, in most aspects of self-respect, it was found that dance/mouvement therapy was helpful to improving children's self respect. On the basis of above results, I claim that dance/mouvement therapy has a significant positive influence in reducing and stabilizing anger and enhancing their self-respect.

The purpose of this study is to show the effects of art activity in Transactional Analysis for marital education to improve marital communication and satisfaction. The objective of the program includes: the improvement of couple's self-understanding, in particular, understanding of personality, the enhancement of mutual communication by understanding the transactional analysis proper and stroke, and the increase of self-conditioned autonomy in continuous game-like psychological interactions, which is believed to be helpful for building mutual intimacy. This program is consisted of lecture, training, assignment, group activity and art activity. The sample for this study consists of 11 subjects who registered a course, 'Understanding Personality and Communication,' in K University Lifelong Education Center. Participants received one session per week for 2 hours and a half for 14 weeks. The effectiveness of the program was analysed by pretest-posttest comparisons on the participant group though the paired-t test. The scales adopted in the study were marital communication inventory and marital satisfaction scale. The results were as follows: First, there were significant increases of the level of marital communication. Second, there were not meaningful increases of the level of marital satisfaction. Thus the marital education program through art activity based on transactional analysis works for the improvement of marital communication.

This study was to analyze and clarify the holistic and healing characteristics of R. Steiner's Eurythmy as an art of movement with help of which Korean children and adults can be developed and healed wholly. For the purpose of this study texts, books, dissertations, and essays which are concerned with Waldorf education, Anthroposophy, and Eurythmy were collected, reviewed, and analyzed with the conceptual frames of holistic education, spiritual psychology and arts therapy specially dance movement therapy. The conclusions of this study were brought as follows: Firstly, eurythmy is a pedagogical art of integrating children's cognitive, and emotional developments with body through connecting the human senses. Secondly, eurythmy contributes itself toward evolution of human consiousness to be synthesized with spirituality and the Higher Self beyond body/mind. Thirdly, eurythmy is a tool for children and adults to be healed and hygiened wholly. Fourthly, eurythmy has the same goal as dance movement therapy partly but the processes of eurythmy and dance movement therapy are different and complimentary each other in that latter begin at the therapeutic stage, the former at a integrative stage. Fifthly, eurythmy is a excellent movement meditation with the helps of listening and moving at same time including western science and eastern philosophy of ying/yang polarity.

The purpose of this study was to reflect creative dimension of arts in arts psychotherapy mainly on cognitive approach to arts. First of all main theories and characteristics of cognitive approach were examined, which is important in creative dimension of arts. According to this approach, arts were regarded as fundamental methods of cognition by which perceptive reasoning is made, and they play a very momentous cognitive role in our understanding and constructing the world surrounding us. In particular the unique cognitive functions of arts that are flexible, integrative and creative play an effective role in the process of discovery and creation. And these characteristics of arts provide an essential theoretical basis explaining why arts have therapeutic effects in arts psychotherapies. The following creative dimensions were provided as the result of the discussion. First, arts stimulate our desire to create, pursue, and modify. Second, arts stimulate reasoning by promoting thoughtful and broad thinking. Third, arts enable us to think integrative. Fourth, arts promote flexible thinking. Fifth, arts promote creative thinking. Finally arts enable us to know what insightful experience is. It is expected that the studies, like this, will contribute to strengthening theoretical and practical basis by providing a theoretical ground for why arts have therapeutic effects and even to securing academic identity of arts psychotherapy.

This study aims at investigating how social recognition abilities differ between one group of preschoolers who show problematic behaviors more frequently and the other who show less. To this end, a survey was conducted on problematic behaviors and social recognition ability among 20 each of 3-, 4- and 5-year-old preschoolers attending the kindergarten "H" in “J"-gun, Jollanamdo, totalling 60 preschoolers. As a result, firstly, the problematic behavior appeared to be lower in the order of 4-year olds, 5-year olds and 3-year olds. Secondly, as a result of investigating social recognition ability according to ages, it appeared to be higher in the order of 5-year olds, 4-year olds and 3-year olds. Thirdly, as a result of investigating the difference in social recognition ability between the superior group(top 20%) in which many problematic behaviors are observed and the subordinate group (20%), the subordinate group's social recognition ability was higher.

The purpose of this study is to show whether or not art therapy can help the women afflicted by the instances of incest. The subjects of this study are two women in their forties. Our study began in July 2008, and ended in September of the same year. Therapy sessions had been held every week during the period, and each session lasted 80 minutes. We have used a lot of tools like anxiety test, self concept test, K-HTP, KFD and so on. As a result, We have found the fact that the art therapy can help them clean their anxieties and express their frank mind that was hidden in their sub-conscience. That was very surprising and positive result.

In this case study, children from low-income families were subjected to an after-school-group art-therapy program with the purpose of finding on children’s self-esteem and interpersonal skills. For the study, the local teacher chose 5 students among the 10 year old students attending "C" City gongbubang(study group for the children from low-income families). The study program consisted of weekly sessions spanning from September 13th, 2006 to March 21st, each lasting about 50 minutes for a total 24 sessions. Self-esteem scales, interpersonal relationship change scales, KSD and KFD tests were completed before and after the program to objectify the effects of group art therapy. Paired sample t-test was used in data interpretation for finding therapeutic effectiveness. Overall results are as follows: First, group art therapy didn’t lead to any significant increase in the subjects’ self-esteem, but did have an effect on the subjects’ interpersonal skills. Second, depending on the phase of the program, (earlier, later) art therapy had an effect on improving self-esteem and behaviors related to interpersonal skills of the subjected students. Third, in drawing tests, KSD showed a positive change in self-esteem and interpersonal relationship skills, whereas KFD revealed no noticeable effect on the students involved. Results of the study suggest that group art therapy has a positive effect on the self-esteem and interpersonal skills of gongbubang children from low-income families.

This study's aim is twofold: first, it analyzes how positively the therapy adopting Korean traditional dance influences on a group of middle-aged women's mental health and life satisfaction. Second, it tries to present some fundamental materials for the educational programs that can be developed from this kind of therapy. The results are summarized as followed. First, the average figure was relatively decreased from (M=126.20) of pre-test to the average figure (M=97.37) of post-test (p<.01). Second, it analyzed the influence of participation into dance therapy in life satisfaction of middle-aged women and got the result that there was a meaningful difference (p<.01) in statistics; the average figure was changed from (M=90.77) of pre-test to (M=100.47) of post-test.