"The purpose of this is testing the effect of mother-children group art therapy on the children’s school maladjustment behavior. The research subjects are seven (the number of child and mother, n=7) first year elementary students and their mothers. Every week, two times mother-children group art therapy intervention has been made around 60~80 minutes with total 20 interventions during a semester. The research instruments of this study are the revised 45 items for the school maladjustment from school maladjustment evaluation(choi, jeong ae 2006), and Korean and Mathematics exam score for scholastic motivation according to the school curriculum. The mother-children activity centered group art therapy program has been reconstructed for improving the interaction between mother and children and their practical accessibility to the program. The research has been conducted from the first of 2009 May to 20th of July (about three months) with around 60~80 minutes with total 20 interventions during the time period. The research result has been analyzed with Wilcockson’s nonparametric test for testing the different between pre (baseline) and post (immediately after interventions) comparison, and the post and after (two month after interventions) comparison. The results of this study showed the mother-children group art therapy is effective on the children’s school maladjustment behavior (i.e., reduce such behavior) not only for the pre and post comparison, but also for the post and after comparison. For the effect on scholastic motivation, the therapy intervention improved (i.e., the post exam score is greater than the pre exam score) both cognitive achievement in terms of Korean exam scores, and the effects also been retained during two months (i.e., the after exam score is not decreased from the post exam score). However, due to the small subject number (n=7), readers should carry caution on the result of statistical significance for this study, and it is needed securing much lager subject size (e.g., greater than 30) for the future work.
Key Words : Mother-Children Group, Art Therapy, School Maladjustment Behavior, Scholastic Motivation"