The aim of the study is to find out the influence of dance therapy which has been applied for 4 weeks in the program to the effect of behavioral changes of the hearing difficult child in social·emotional aspects.
Dance therapy is to help the physi...
The aim of the study is to find out the influence of dance therapy which has been applied for 4 weeks in the program to the effect of behavioral changes of the hearing difficult child in social·emotional aspects.
Dance therapy is to help the physically and mentally difficult persons of all age to transform their inner distorted and incomplete state to a normal state through the creative movement of dance.
The purpose of dance therapy is to solve the social and emotional problems caused from lack of self confidence and distorted self consciousness of the hearing difficulties with incomplete communication and to help them release the anxiety and the melancholia toward the adaptation of normal school life and the establishment of own social self.
This Dance program consist of four stages. The first stage is a experiencing the movement on the basis of effort-shape application and the components of movement grasp and analysis on the movement objectively. Second stage is spatial expansion stage, contact and mutual reaction as third stage, and instant expression and group activity stage as fourth.
Research objectives are each 10(4 male, 6 female) hearing difficult students of 5-6 grade at the elementary school from experimental group in Taegu Young-hwa school and Pusan Bae-hwa school as comparative group.
The result of an analysis to measure the social·emotional changes after the application of 12 times for 4 week's dance therapy program to the two groups of compared and experimented is explained as following.
1. Dance therapy promoted the level of self assesment of the hearing difficult child.
2. Dance therapy promoted the level of teacher assesment of the hearing difficult child.
3. Dance therapy promoted the level of parent assesment of the hearing difficult child.
4. Dance therapy did not promote the level of friend assesment of the hearing difficult child.
5. Dance therapy greatly promoted the level of emotional assesment of the hearing difficult child.
The above result of the analysis prove the effectiveness of dance therapy on the social·emotional behavior development of the hearing difficult child. In conclusion, the dance therapy should be further studied in various cases and be adopted as a creative art therapy in one methods of psychological treatment for the mental disease.