This study purports to see if art therapy can help the women of home violence regain a sense of self esteem and sociability.
For study subject a female individual is chosen from the shelter for Women's Hotline in the city of Pusan. She is given both the self esteem test and the sociability test as research instruments to be employed for data analysis; also employed is the House-Tree-Person test.
Art therapy in question is carried out at each meeting or session lasting 100 minutes, 2-3
times a week and total 19 sessions. The results so obtained are as follows.
First, art therapy shows some effective improvements on self esteem of the female victims of domestic violence.
Second, art therapy exhibits some enhancement on the women's sociability.
Witnessing the client's course of changes, we may claim that the client was able to find,
through the therapy sessions, ways to develop herself to the effect that she regain
confidence, positive attitude, and a sense of achievement, so as to recognize her own
potentialities as well as opportunities for looking into her own inner life. Learning how to
express herself properly during the sessions, the client realizes her own role in the shelter
and behaves cooperatively and sympathetically with other members of the shelter to establish a social bond or friendship.
Key Words: Art therapy, Self esteem, Sociability, Domestic violence