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This study was conducted on foreign workers living in P City, Gyeonggi-do, to see the effects of short-term group art therapy in decreasing accumulative stress in foreign workers. The research subjects were 14 foreign workers experiencing cultural stress, divided into 2 groups of experimental group and control group, 7 people each. Experimental group received 8 group art therapy lessons, 90 minutes per week. Acculturation Stress Scale, PITR and paired t-test was used to analyze the data. Results : Short-term group art therapy was successful in reduction of accumulative stress in foreign workers. Results of Acculturation Stress Scale showed that decrease in accumulative stress was significant. Also, tests on subcategories of accumulative stress (discrimination, language conflict, and legal standing) showed significant reduction after short-term group art therapy. In conclusion, it was confirmed that this short-term group art therapy was effective in decrease of accumulative stress in foreign workers by giving them mental and emotional help.

The purpose of the study was to investigate the characteristics of family perception of siblings with children with disabilities on the Kinetic Family Drawings. The study participants were 23 elementary school students who have siblings with disabilities and 20 elementary school students who have siblings without disabilities. The collected data were analyzed with cross-analysis, Fisher exact test, and interviews were implemented after the completion of the Kinetic Family Drawings test. The characteristics of family perception of siblings with children with disabilities on the Kinetic Family Drawings test were measured by 26 variables among a grading scale of Burns & Kaufman, 1970. As the results, the siblings' perception through style, symbol, content of action, distance of family person on the Kinetic Family Drawings were analysed. The results showed that the siblings with children with disabilities felt and thought the alienation from other family members. Thus, support programs for the siblings are needed for the positive impact on the siblings and their appropriate development and identification. The study also suggested to develop more valid and reliable instruments to understand the siblings' experiences and characteristics.

The purpose of this study was to provide an art activity program for a child with intellectual disabilities from a single-parent family to express his or her emotion and needs and feel a sense of achievement in an effort to help improve his or her verbal and nonverbal self-expression. The subject in this study was a child with intellectual disabilities in a fourth-grade special class in A elementary school in the city of Pohang, North Gyeongsang Province. He was at the Western age of 10. An art activity program was implemented to verify its impact, and the child's changes in speech, voice and nonverbal self-expression were observed and recorded in every session to keep track of the process of his change. This study made a case study of a child to observe the effect of the art activity program on self-expression. As a result of conducting the art activity program, the following findings were given:First, the art activity program that stressed artistic communication and expression skills was effective at boosting the self-expression of the child with intellectual disabilities from a single-parent family who was reluctant to speak. Second, the art activity program had an effect on improving the nonverbal self-expression of the child with intellectual disabilities from a single-parent family such as eye contact, facial expressions, behavior or attitude.

The purpose of this research is to investigate whether music activity therapy can reduce elementary students' stress level caused by privately tutored after-school teachings. The subjects of this research were twenty four students in Ok-cheon county, ranging from 4th to 6th grade. They were selected among those who had high by Extra-Curricular classes scores on the stress inventory. The experimental group was given 12 sessions (twice a week and for fifty minutes) of music treatment and the control group was given no treatment. The result after the music activity treatment showed a significant difference in the stress scores between the two groups(p<.05). The second result comparing the subordinate areas showed a significant difference in the areas of studies, family, school(p<.05), mind, and the future(p<.01). These results show the effectiveness of music therapy in general which implies that music is an effective method to reduce the stress of a elementary school students.

The purpose of this study is to see whether cognitive behavioral therapy and art psychotherapy can be effective in improving the behavior of ADHD children. The research results can be summarized as followings: To analyze the impulsive behavior, self-control, and social skills of cognitive behavioral therapy and art psychotherapy, all the activities and children`s behavioral changes of each session are observed, recorded, and analyzed according to the study case. The research results are as followings: First, the impulse score of the children in pre-test and post-test analysis has decreased significantly. This shows that the cognitive behavioral therapy and art psychotherapy is effective in decreasing the impulsiveness of ADHD children. Second, there has been significant improvement on the self-control score after the therapy was applied. This shows that the art therapy program is effective in improving self-control ability of ADHD children. Third, there has been significant improvement on the social skill score after the therapy was applied. This shows that social skills training of the art psychotherapy program is effective in developing the social skill ability in the cognitive behavior of ADHD children. In conclusion, as the cognitive behavioral therapy and art psychotherapy program helps effectively reduce the impulsiveness and improve self-control ability and social skills of ADHD children, it contributes in reducing problem behaviors of ADHD children. So the program can be used as behavior counseling techniques for children with ADHD in school.

This study comparatively investigated the sub components of both Freud's structural theory of personality and a confucian, Yi Yi's theory of mind, with including confucians' mind theories in Chosun Dynasty, in mind theories in arts psychotherapy. Conclusions from this study are that the sub components of Freud's structural theory of personality, that is, id, ego, and superego have similar functions and conceptual structures with iyog(人慾), ui(意), and cholri(天理), the sub components of Yi Yi's theory of mind, respectively, while those theories have some different perspectives such as theories' goals, sub components' origins, conscious and unconscious aspects. It was discussed that both ego and ui(意) can be regarded as executive control system, that speech has an important role to control thoughts and behaviors in both ego and ui(意), that Yi Yi's theory of mind could be regarded as three dimensional aspects like Freud's structural theory of personality, and that our attention to both theories help clinical practices in applied psychology including arts psychotherapy.

This study examined a possibility of using colors in psychological diagnosis or as a treatment by analyzing O'Keeffe's works showing sensual and sexual expressions of women's sexuality through metaphorical cropped techniques( a photo technique). Her works were analyzed in terms of the characteristics of the colors, formation of the unique colors, main colors, and the analysis of her psyche along the course of her life and the time setting. Her life was divided into three periods in this study: the formation period (before she met her husband Stieglitz who caused great change in the themes and colors of her works), the passionate period (after she met her husband), and the mature period (after her husband's death). Eight of her works representing each period were chosen, which made a total of 24 paintings. The paintings were analyzed with Suenaga's Heart & Color Method. The findings of the analysis are as follows. First, in the formation period, O'Keeffe emphasized emotional richness and softness using warm and cool tones of ink and wash painting. Angled charts expressed her extraversion, Emotional softness was often expressed in her use of low saturated colors using the high and low lightness of 1 to 9 in charcoal drawing. Second, in the passionate period, she used bold colors and showed abstract expressions of objects to express women's rights and the freedom of expression. Vivid colors used in this period conveyed her mental positiveness and exuberance of energy. In difficult times, she used smoky gray tones to express her feelings, and as she survived a tumor operation, she expressed her sense of relief and hope in tender colors. Third, in the mature period, a surrealistic tendency appeared with elegant and delicate colors. Angled charts expressed extraversion. Circular charts expressed in splendid colors of nature reflected from the sunlight of New Mexico conveyed her relaxed psyche and calmly settled sensitivity coming from her free life. In tone chart, O'keeffe combined a pure 3-dimensional space with landscapes of New Mexico and images related to growth, reflecting a state of unconsciousness and consciousness of her time with colors and themes.