중국계 중도입국 청소년의 집단미술치료 사례연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to examine the mental status and problems of immigrated adolescents through a group art treatment program and search for the significance of the program experience. The research participants implemented the group art treatment program on four immigrated adolescents participating in an immigration center located in 'I' city for 12 times through the period of April 2015 to October 2015. The K-HTP pre- and post-test method was used in order to examine the emotional change of the participating immigrated adolescents. The results of this study pointed out that the components of the K-HTP have changed, meaning that the adolescents who participated in the group art treatment formed a positive self image. The immigrant youth who participated in the collage group art therapy demonstrated positive changes family, self and personal needs through the changed components of K-HTP. Also, the participants' behaviors changed from defensive to mutually communicative the research participants’ actions changed from defensive to communicative and that of showing their persona. In short, the results of this study show that the group art treatment experience provides immigrated adolescents a chance to promote their personal emotional change which can contribute in their adaptation to the Korean society. This case study of group art treatment experience is similar to Seung-Mee Lee(2007)’s study that personal inner capacity may be enhanced by increasing behavioral frequency of attentive listening and intragroup interaction in the process of clay and plastic arts work, and works explanation by participants. Thus, this study verified program development and its meanings for psychological-mental stability enhancement through arts as effective method which considers developmental and cultural distinctiveness of immigrant adolescents whose numbers are drastically increasing in Korea. This study will be used as a basic data to help their social adaptation.