Self-consciousness Improvement Effect of Nonstructured Developmental Art Therapy on a Developmental Disordered Child -A Study on the Single Case-

비구조적 발달 미술치료를 통한 발달장애아의 자아의식 향상 효과 -단일사례를 중심으로-

This study is a non-structured developmental art-therapy case study having done 134 times of total treatments for a 12 years old girl, having extremely poor verbal communication ability and sociality comparing to her ability in perception and motion. I presumed the cause of this gap between perceptibility and the communication ability was a problem related to self-consciousness. To cure the problem, I provided treatment programs designed to use material which can create a stable and reliable environment and can give body experiences such as painting and play-dough. As the treatment programs progressed, I found she had changed gradually to lead the game by herself and to express her favorite colors and shapes. Also she became to be able to express her experience as a simple word and to response short answers for questions.