The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of group art therapy by cooperative activity on peer relationship and social skill of the broken home children.
The subject of the study was the broken home children of the 00 study group in 00 welf...
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of group art therapy by cooperative activity on peer relationship and social skill of the broken home children.
The subject of the study was the broken home children of the 00 study group in 00 welfare facility in 00. 21 children who wanted to take part in were divided into 7 children of group work group, 7 children of individual work group and 7 children of control group.
This program comprised of 18 sessions(once a week, 90 to 120 minutes for each session) and was put in operation in the art classroom of the welfare facility.
Peer Relationship Test by Han, Jong Hae and social skill Test of elementary school students by Yang, Chang Ho were used for the evaluation tools, Ancova was put in operation after pretest-posttest research.
The specific purpose of the study are as follows :
First, to find out the effect of group art therapy through group work and individual work on peer relationship of the broken home childhood.
Second, to find out the effect of group art therapy through group work and individual work on social skill of the broken home childhood.
The results of this study are as follows :
First, both the group work and the individual work were effective for the peer relationship of the broken home chidhood. Especially, the group art therapy through the group work was more effective than the group art therapy through the individual work.
Second, both the group work and the individual work were effective for the social skill of the broken home childhoo.
In short, this study shows the positive effect of group art therapy by cooperative activity on peer relationship and social skill of the broken home children.