This study aims to figure out how Group Art Therapy affects self-openness of mothers
and :Vlothcr-Child Interaction, which subjects arc eighteen mothers who have a kindergarten
child (nine of them are in a controlled group, the others are in an empirical group). This
Group Art Therapy was carried out once a week, about ninety minutes, and thirteen times
totally.
Measuring apparatuses are Openness Scale, Mother-Child Interaction, and K -HTP
(Kinetic-House-Tree-Person) and t-test was implemented to grasp the effect of Group Art
Therapy using SPSS 10.0.
Here comes the results of this study.
First, in Openness Scale and Mother-Child Interaction, the empirical group has made a
good high score but the controlled group has made little difference after Group Art
Therapy.
Second, analysing K -HTP has showed that there was lack of openness in drawing
houses before Group Art Therapy, and that most of group members developed openness
after Group Art Therapy. In case of dra'iNing trees, desire and energy became weak after
Group Art Therapy and scattered to a family while desire and energy were high before
Group Art Therapy. In case of drawing people, all the family members were showed on the
picture and they did something or looked at one another, while the person just did
something a10ne before Group Art Therapy.
As all the group members expressed thejr emobons directly and/or indjrectly in the
process of Group Art Therapy, they had the desire to understand themselves and cognition
for themselves. And they have also gotten to know the advantage of self-openness,
accordingly they have expected the advantage of self-openness to give them a better
Mother-Child Interaction, human relationship, and social life. As the result, these positive
changes could make Group Art Therapy to attain its goal.