This study has the purpose to examine whether the awareness about the internal state plays the role of intermediary effect in the course of the art therapist's career influencing counter-transference management ability and counter-transference utiliza...
This study has the purpose to examine whether the awareness about the internal state plays the role of intermediary effect in the course of the art therapist's career influencing counter-transference management ability and counter-transference utilization and review the influence of the awareness of the art therapist's internal state affecting counter-transference management ability and counter-transference utilization.
This study assumed that when art therapists are in the same level of careers, counter-transference management ability and counter-transference utilization should have difference according to low and high internal state awareness.
For this, the data were analyzed from the participation of 178 therapists performing art therapy over 1 year in the field. AS for the measuring took, the art therapist's career and training questionnaire of the self-report type, counter-transference management ability measuring paper, counter- transference utilization measuring paper and internal state awareness measuring paper were utilized for measurement.
The collected data were analyzed by using SPSS 17.0 for Windows and correlation analysis, reliability analysis, frequency analysis and hierarchical regression analysis were performed.
The results of this study are as following. First, the other variables except for the certificates (scholarly attainment, age, certificate, therapy career, super vision, education analysis and group therapy) among the art therapist careers influenced significant effects to counter-transference management ability. Second, among the art therapist's careers the rest variables except for age still had significant effects to counter-transference utilization. Third, it was shown that among the art therapist careers about counter - transference management ability, certificates, numbers of cases and treatment and age have a significant meaning to the internal state awareness. Fourth, in counter-transference utilization, certificates and number of cases out of the art therapist's careers were proved to be significant to the interactive effects with the internal state awareness.
This study has the meaning to confirm the effects of the careers influencing counter-transference management ability and utilization according to the levels of the art therapist's internal state awareness.
Consequently, it suggests that therapists search for internal state awareness and understand themselves and effectively manage and utilize counter-transference in the counter-transference management and utilization in the art therapy field. At last, the limits of this study and suggestions for the future studies were discussed.