This study was conducted for young old people who had high depression
to apply Food Art Therapy(FAT) for investigating the effects to their depression
and self-esteem, I selected 10 young old people who live in Incheon, and
they were separated the experiment group and the control group, and they
had been received 16 times of food art therapy, and I did a qualitative
analysis and quantitative analysis.
The result of this study is as follows. First, the young old people who
participated in food art therapy remarkably decreased depression level more
than the young old people who did not participate in food art therapy, and
there were positive changes. Second, food art therapy made young old
people's self-esteem high, and led positive changes by enhancing inner
energy which can treat various factors of depression. Third, the result of
qualitative research showed that young old people expressed their
suppressed inner negative feelings in therapeutic relationship and trust of
client centered therapy, It made positive changes for their distorted
self-conception by supporting and accepting in the group.
To sum it all up, he food art therapy program was proven that it can
make positive effect of young old people’s depression and self-esteem. So I
hope that there are many places where young old people who have
depression can do the activity easily for their mental health in social
welfare practice