난화를 활용한 이야기 만들기 미술치료가중도입국 청소년의 정서표현 및 이야기 구성에 미치는 효과

Abstract

This study is to determine the effect of the story making art therapy using scribble on the emotional expression and story construction of the immigrant youths who are in a bilingual environment between their native language and Korean, to provide them with help to adapt to Korean society. The 2 participants(client A, B) of this study were selected among the immigrant youths with less 1 year residence in Korea who want to be treated by art therapy. The study was proceeded at ‘K Multi-cultural Counseling Center’ located in S city from June 2012 to November 2012 to two participants under the same conditions composed of total 22 sessions of 60 minutes for each one once a week. To determine the effectiveness of emotional expression, the preliminary/post scale tests for emotional expression were performed, and the changes in action and language based on the emotional expressions on each session were qualitatively analyzed. And to find out the effectiveness of story construction, the finalized stories at the end of each session were evaluated with the rating scale based on story structure concept and components, converted into scores, and the degree of changes were constructed into graphs. This study is resulted as follows: Firstly, the story making art therapy using scribble was effective for the emotional expressions of immigrant youths. The preliminary/post-evaluation results of emotional expression scale showed all of clients’ scores are improved, and sub-scale analysis results all are improved, excluding client B’s compulsion intensity, who had an equal preliminary/post-evaluation scores. The result of qualitative analysis by sessions showed that both participants increased the use of vocabularies for emotional expressions with the process of sessions, and their actions and language were changed into positive and hopeful expressions from negative emotional expressions. Secondly, the story making art therapy using scribble was effective for the story constructions of the immigrant youth. This result of evaluation indicated that all participants gradually improved the story structure concept and components with the times. Therefore, this study suggests art therapy of story telling using scribble could be utilized as an effective therapy method for immigrant youths in adapting to the Korean society.