The purpose of this study is to develope a group counseling program
applying horticulture therapy to improve parent-child relationship of the single
parent family, and verify the effect of it. To achieve the goals of this study,
Group Counseling Program applying Horticulture Therapy was developed based
on the group counseling program Model suggested by Kim, Chang Dea(2002).
To verify the effect of the developed program, the program was practiced to
24 single parents, who were divided into an experimental group and a
controlled group, once a week. The program in the totally 9 times was carried
out, and each session took 120 minutes. The variables used to verify the effect
of the program were degree of satisfaction on the parent-child relationship of
pre and post experiments, self-esteem, and depression scale. The difference
between the experimental groups and the controlled groups was analysed using
ANCOVA. The following are the results of the study. There was statistically
significant difference in the parent-child relationship, in the degree of
self-esteem, and in the depression scale between the experimental group, which
attended Group Counseling Program applying Horticulture Therapy, and the
controlled group, which did not.