반려동물을 상실한 성인여성의 애도중심 미술치료 개인 사례연구

Abstract

This study aims to identify the influence of grief-focused art therapy on grief and depression in an adult female who has lost her companion animal. For this study, a 38-year-old married woman who had lost her companion animal two months ago was selected as the subject and was conducted a grief-focused art therapy program based on the five stages of grief model of Kübler-Ross 1-2 times a week: 70 min., per session and 34 sessions in total from April 4, 2019, to January 30, 2020. As study tools, Pet Bereavement Questionnaire (PBQ) and Korean Version of Beck's Depression Inventory Version II(K-BDI-II) were used for pre-, post-, and follow-up comparisons, and as a projective test, House-Tree-Person (HTP) was used for pre-, post-, and follow-up qualitative comparisons. In addition, each session and each stage of the program was analyzed qualitatively with session-specific art therapy observation records. The study findings are as follows. First, the scores in the domains of grief/sadness, trauma, and guilt decreased, and the score in adult female depression was significantly reduced. This change can also be found in HTP, which suggests that grief-focused art therapy positively influences adult female grief alleviation and depression reduction. Second, as a result of examining the changes in sessions and stages of grief and depression in an adult female who had lost her companion animal, it was found that she could accept the reality of her loss of companion animal and discern the meaning of new life through the art therapy process and the outputs. Positive changes emerged as she perceived the changes of depression and returned to everyday life. Based on these results, this study suggested the effectiveness of grief-focused art therapy for an adult female who has lost a companion animal to alleviate grief and reduce depression. In this regard, it is significant in that this study provided the fundamental data for both feasibilities in the art therapy settings and follow-up studies.