This research is purposed to render the children in low-income class the methods to appropriately respond to others and to express their emotions and current feelings and positive changes in their thinking methods through group fine art therapies tha...
This research is purposed to render the children in low-income class the methods to appropriately respond to others and to express their emotions and current feelings and positive changes in their thinking methods through group fine art therapies that will give experiences in their emotions and current feelings.
The children in the low-income class are the children in the low-income families in economic difficulties and they live without proper cares. The children in such environments grow observing aggressive behaviors becoming to act aggressively without perceptions. And the children's aggressiveness expands into school violences and problems are created as those children grow up.
In this research, gestalt group fine art therapies were executed 12 times on 6 elementary school students in 3rd grade (4 males, 2 females) who normally show aggressive behaviors among the children in low-income families attending a study room in S-gu in Seoul and the same school. Prior aggressiveness degree tests were made after the 1st session had been finished and post factum tests were made after the 12th session had been finished. As the tool to test aggressiveness, questionnaire surveys were made using BDHI((Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory) and 6 as a control group, 6 elementary school students in 3rd grade in the low-income class attending a study room located in Gyeonggi-do (4 males, 2 females) were tested for aggressiveness using the same method. The control group went through the prior-post factum aggressiveness degree test simultaneously with the experiment group. And, a group fine art program was composed centering on modeling works in order to maximize the effect to reduce aggressiveness by having them consume their aggressive energy and re-perceive their subjects of aggression.
Based on the result of the analyses of the effect of the gestalt fine art therapies centered on modeling works, there are significant differences in the reduction of aggressiveness. And the result of analyses of changes by sessions is as follows.
Early sessions (1- 4 sessions) were proceeded as the time for the children to form rapports and to realize what was the fine art therapy and as the sessions where the children could express their emotions. They did not recognize other and thought only themselves and had no consideration for others.
In the intermediary sessions(5-9 sessions), they became to know and share each other's emotion and cohesion was created between the members so they interacted with each other giving feedbacks. The aggressiveness of the children such as the behaviors of the children fighting with each other insisting on earlier orders over others not waiting for their turns, initiating fights against other's responses, staring fiercely at others and making malicious facial expressions was reduced.
In the latter sessions(10-12 sessions), the children were caused to organized their emotions and the emotions in relation to personal relationships and family relations. The children who had worked only for their works began to work in collaboration with others. Therefore, the fine art therapy centered on modeling as used in this research can be considered to have exerted positive influences on the children's emotions. Gestalt therapies cause patients to learn the way to use their senses sufficiently, to perceive how much they express by clearly expressing their emotions and to feel it now-here. If they sufficiently experience current moments, it will enhance their ability control themselves and thereby they will become to control the environments that obstruct spontaneous self-controls and also control other factors. Although group fine art therapies can't change children's environments, they are considered to be able to help children view their behaviors objectively through interactions with their environments and recognize their own aggressive behaviors to have the energy to correct their behaviors and control their emotions.