This study was aimed to examine the effects of group expressive arts psychotherapy on self-expression and social skill of Single-parent Family Children. Subjects were 12 third- to fourth-grade children who had shown low expression and deficient social...
This study was aimed to examine the effects of group expressive arts psychotherapy on self-expression and social skill of Single-parent Family Children. Subjects were 12 third- to fourth-grade children who had shown low expression and deficient social skill in Seoul. 6 of the 12 were assigned to experimental group which received the therapy program, while the other 6 were assigned to control group which received no treatment. The therapy program consisted of a total of 12 sessions, 80 minutes per session, and once or twice a week from December 20, 2017 to February 7, 2018.
Self-expression ability scale (Byeon & Kim, 1980) and social skill scale (Moon, 2013) were used for pre- and post-test. Based on the data, Mann–Whitney U test was conducted to test the homogeneity between the groups before the program, and Wilcoxon signed rank test was conducted to assess effectiveness of the therapy after the program using SPSS 21.0. A qualitative analysis was conducted to explore the change processes in self-expression and social skill during the therapy program.
This study has a significance in that it proved that group expressive arts psychotherapy is social skill improvement program which allows children from single-parent families to have psychological stability, to have positive interpersonal relationships, and to adjust to society.