This single case research of art therapy for neglected children whose mothers are addicted to the use of internet went on for 11 months starting from October 2009 until September 2010 producing 42 times of 60 minute per week therapy sessions. It was h...
This single case research of art therapy for neglected children whose mothers are addicted to the use of internet went on for 11 months starting from October 2009 until September 2010 producing 42 times of 60 minute per week therapy sessions. It was held at 00 region children center with request by the Child and Adolescent Counseling Center to see how neglected children positively recognize and express one's self and how they properly recognize relationships with others through art therapy.
Since emotional negligence of children creates the most serious emotional problems, among different types of negligence, after growth and the lack of self-awareness may affect human dignity & development, art therapy's goal was to see how it will affect emotionally negligent children of self-awareness and awareness of others.
Negligence is closely related to an early attachment with the carer, and this experience of relationships at our early stage will be saved at our mental storage. Not only does young children develop a representation between themselves and others by continuous interaction with their carer, but also affects the methods of how they form emotions & thoughts related to affections. Therefore, since early attachment becomes an important base for emotional stability, self-control, interpersonal relationships, and emotionally neglected children are underdeveloped because they cannot coordinate themselves & has inadequate attachment experiences, this research will attempt to prove that art therapy is effective towards self-expression and purification.
The Research looked into the progress of coordination & reperception based on ‘Internal Working Models’ of emotionally neglected children relating to children's early attachment relationships. It conducted a picture test H-T-P(House-Tree-Person Test), K-F-D(Kinetic Family Drawing Test) and SCT(Sentence Completion Test) before and after as its research methods, and it observed step-by-step, session-by-session changes of self-awareness.
As a result of the research problems; Firstly, it helped oneself to be positively aware of themselves through creative internal work with the base of stable environment of art therapy. Secondly, an inadequate awareness of others changed into a formation of intimacy among family members and created positive awareness of friendships through the increase of dyfunctional interaction.
With this research results, this research verifies the effects of art therapy of positive self-awareness and expressions, healthy family relationship formations, and adequate awareness of others with the help of ‘Internal Working Model’ which positively & adequately transforms and stabilizes emotion by activating child's internal relationships through structural and stable art therapy approach towards emotionally neglected children.