The purpose of this study is to make inquires about how a group art therapy with reality
therapy would effect on personality or characteristics of juvenile delinquents who are confined
in correction facilities. The study subjects are male adolescents attending the E Info-
Communications High School, and are presently under the section 6 probation because of
their commitment to criminal acts. The research instruments used in this study include Y. O.
M. T., an adolescent group counselling program, developed by W. Glasser & C. Floyd,
which is in turn translated as “Making a world in which we love to live” and other criteria
I made. The results of the study are as follows. First, there is no significant difference in
clinical characteristics index. Second, there shows some significant difference in synchronism
and imitation, both of which are subcategories of deviation characteristics. Third, there
appears a significant difference in a sense of responsibility and self esteem as subcategories
of general characteristics. Fourth, there has been an attitude change from blames and disregard at early sessions of the group therapy to understandings and consideration of others at later sessions of the therapy. Also juveniles become able to express their opinions with confidence and to plan their future with more concrete dreams. As a result, for juvenile delinquents confined in correction facilities, a group art therapy with reality therapy works in a way that the therapy lets the juvenile express their feelings through creative activity and experience a sense of accomplishment, in the sense that they choose the best possibility by learning a selection theory and feel a sense of responsibility for what they choose, and to the extent that the therapy sessions are effective to help the juveniles reduce imitation and synchronism but reinforce responsibility and self esteem. Consequently, the value of this study lies on the fact that a reality therapy group art therapy on juvenile delinquents shows how the therapy may prevent such delinquency or its recurrence.
Key Words : Reality Therapy, Group Art Therapy, Juvenile Delinquent, Personality