This study aims to figure out how Group Art Therapy affects self-openness of mothers and mother-child interaction, which subjects are eighteen mothers who have a kindergarten child (nine of them are in a controlled group, the others are in an empirica...
This study aims to figure out how Group Art Therapy affects self-openness of mothers and mother-child interaction, which subjects are eighteen mothers who have a kindergarten child (nine of them are in a controlled group, the others are in an empirical group). This Group Art Therapy proceeded once a week, about ninety minutes, and thirteen times totally.
Measuring apparatuses are Openness Scale, Mother-Child Interaction, and K-HTP(Kinetic-House-Tree-Person) and t-test was implemented to grasp the effect of Group Art Therapy using SPSS 10.0.
Here comes the result of this study.
First, in Openness Scale and Mother-Child Interaction, the empirical group has made a good high score but the controlled group has made little difference after Group Art Therapy.
Second, analysing K-HTP has showed that there was lack of openness in drawing houses before Group Art Therapy, and that most of group members developed openness after Group Art Therapy. In case of drawing trees, desire and energy became weak after Group Art Therapy and scattered to a family while desire and energy were high before Group Art Therapy. In case of drawing people, all the family members were showed on the picture and they did something or looked at one another, while the person just did something alone before Group Art Therapy.
As all the group members expressed their emotions directly and/or indirectly in the process of Group Art Therapy, they had the desire to understand themselves and cognition for selves. And they have also gotten to know the advantage of self-openness, accordingly they have expected the advantage of self-openness to give them a better mother-child interaction, human relationship, and social life. As the result, in conclusion, these positive changes could make Group Art Therapy to attain its goal.