This study strives to find out the effect of Zen-behavioristic group Art Therapy on stress of nursing home staff. The subject of the study is the staffs working in the nursing home located in G city. The selected staffs from total of 50-who has worked in the facility over three months, who understand the concept of the study, who wish to participate in the study-were divided into the experiment group and the control group with 8 people each by priority arrangement. For the experiment measure, Zen behavioristic group Art Therapy program was performed subject to the experiment group 14 times for 100 minutes each from January 2009 to March 2009. With respect to research tool, the one that Socio-Psychological Well-being Index invented by Korean Society for Preventive Medicine was used as a stress measure. In regard to data analysis, SPSS for window Ver. 12.0 was used, and each groups' means of before and after test scores were calculated and Paired t-test was conducted to examine measure effect of group Art Therapy. The result of the study is as follow. Zen-behavioristic group Art Therapy showed that it relieved the stress of the nursing home staffs-experiment group in the comparison between before and after and enhanced the subordinate factors of the stress such as social role, self-trust, and survival power. Also, its effect on relieving self recognition of depression and stress was shown. Therefore, Zen-behavioristic group Art Therapy program suggested in this study was effective against lessoning the stress of the nursing home staffs.
Key Words : Zen-Behaviourism, Group Art Therapy, Nursing Home Staff, Stress