Because we can think that most important thing to overcome mother's difficulty who have children with disability is to recognize and accept their reality as it is, so this study was designed to identify the effect of Mandara painting therapy on the mo...
Because we can think that most important thing to overcome mother's difficulty who have children with disability is to recognize and accept their reality as it is, so this study was designed to identify the effect of Mandara painting therapy on the mother's Self-acceptance.
7 mothers whose children had disability and went to Elementary and Secondary schools in C city participated in a survey for this study.
Mandara painting therapy program as the study tool was provided to them 1 time a week, a total of 10 times for 10 weeks.
To identify the effect, mothers were as a test provided with a painting of Kinematics-House-Tree-Person, and were checked the variation in Self-recognition of themselves and their family members, and they were again provided with the Mandara painting which corresponded self-report and Self-acceptance to a linguistic expression. Also variation in Self-acceptance was analyzed in every designated period of time. A analysis included two graduate school students who specialized in counseling psychology and one expert on counseling to ensure fairness.
The variation in Self-acceptance by Mandara painting therapy suggested that:
Firstly, in pre-test by a painting of Kinematics-House-Tree-Person (K-H-T-P) which characterized Mandara painting therapy, self-recognition in general showed an unstable psychological composition, meaning a psychological depression., while in post-test it stayed stable, meaning psychological equilibrium and softness which suggested that mothers now positively accepted themselves as well as their children. In post-test they showed stable and equilibrium relationship with all family members and had many expressions emerged, compared with the unrest in pre-test.
Secondly, as for variation in the self-recognition shown by self-report, attention formerly intensively focused on children with disability increasingly moved to themselves and others. Pains and stresses for children with disability were increasingly disappeared in their more positive view of reality.
Thirdly, as for the painting of self-recognition and the verbal expression of self-recognition, positive and comprehensive attitude for their reality were shown.
Fourth, negative perception about reality when analyzed in initially designated period of time was changed into positive one as they exchanged relationship with other group who participated in Mandara work.
As shown above, it is concluded that Mandara painting therapy helped mothers with children with disability to change their thoughts about disability and lead to a more comprehensive view of world and positive Self-recognition about the circumstances around them.