Effect of a Movement Therapy Program for Developing a Mental Retarded Child's Intrinsic Creativity

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Many recent works on creativity hypothesize that multiple components must coverage for creativity to occur(Amabile, 1983, 1996; Csikszentmihalyi, 1988; Gardner, 1993; Gruber, 1989; Luber, 1994). However, most of recent researches tended to describe a client's social-relationship, motivation, domain-relevant skills and coping abilities through a task. Only a few studies were conducted to define an individual's behaviors such as the affect or mood encompassed by the influence of joy or frustration on the projects undertaken. The purpose of this study was to analysis change of mentally retarded girl (EMR)'s expression of own behavior that appeared after participation in a movement therapy program (5 weeks sessions).
Drawing a picture with usual themes such as self-portrait, friends, and trees. Results were analyzed by Laban Movement Analysis(LMA). Four verified the Effort factors such as Time, Space, Weight, Flow. The Shape was also analyzed by Shape flow, Shaping, and Directional movement. Results of this study indicate that the EMR child's expression not only influenced by the mood of classroom but also influenced by therapist's behavior. The client's creativity was changed to hypertension and hyperactivity in the factors of Space and Weight.