The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of solution-focused group art therapy on social problem solving competency for adolescents. For this purpose, 60 subjects who attended S chapel and K chapel in D city with problem on social problem s...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the effect of solution-focused group art therapy on social problem solving competency for adolescents. For this purpose, 60 subjects who attended S chapel and K chapel in D city with problem on social problem solving competency were participated and conducted Social Problem Solving Inventory-Revised(SPSI-R). According to pretest score, 22 adolescents were selected and randomly assigned into experiment and control groups. Experiment group had a sessions from 11th August, 2014 to 3rd November, 2014 once a week, 100 minute session and totally 12 times solution-focused group art therapy sessions were conducted. Repeated measure ANOVA test was used to compare the pre and post test score between experiment and control groups.
The results of this study were as follows:
First, solution-focused group art therapy enhanced the social problem solving competency of adolescents.
Second, solution-focused group art therapy has a positive effect on the sub-factors of social problem solving competency for adolescents such as positive problem orientation, negative problem orientation, rational problem orientation, impulsive-inattentive response pattern, and evasive response pattern.
Thus, it could be assumed that solution-focused group art therapy could be used for enhancing the social problem solving competency for adolescents with difficulties in social situations.