The Effects of Art Therapy on Well-being and Self-esteem of At-risk Junior High School Students

• Main Authors: Liao Mei-Ju, 廖梅茹
• Other Authors: 張景然
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/30834979643214227263

碩士 === 國立彰化師範大學 === 輔導與諮商學系所 === 104 === The purpose of this study is to research the short-term and long-term effects of using art therapy for at-risk junior high school. This research adopts a quasi-experimental design. The test-receiver is random sampling 300 students of junior high school’s seventh grade and eighth grade in Taichung City. Besides, 30 students who are selected by the test met the standard of at-risk student. Randomly selecting 10 at-risk students as experimental group to accept two hours per week art therapy, for a period of eight weeks. Another 20 at-risk students as the control group did not receive any experimental treatment. Another 20 students who met the standards required to be a high degree of care as the control group did not receive any experimental treatment. Research tools are the "Well-Being scale" and "Self-Esteem Scale" for junior high school students. The pretest was conducted 7 days before the experiment,the posttest one day after the experiment, and the follow-up evaluation eight weeks later. Comparison the result of whether art therapy intervention to enhance well-being and self-esteem, The resulting data collected independent samples single factor ANCOVA statistical test. The main results of this study can be summarized as follows: 1.Art therapy intervention for at-risk junior high students to enhance the health and self-affirmation short-term effect, and enhance self-affirmation and having physical and mental health long-term effect. 2.Art therapy intervention for at-risk junior high school students for students with enhanced "Well-Being scale" and interpersonal harmony, life satisfaction only have short-term effect, the long-term effect is not significant. 3.Art therapy intervention for at-risk junior high school students only have to enhance the self-esteem of the short-term effect, the long-term effect is not significant. 4.Art therapy intervention for at-risk junior high school students do not have the short-term and long-term effects with positive and negative emotions. The present study was conducted to discuss the above findings and recommendations and follow-up study of school counseling staff refer to the following: 1.The recommendation to the school counseling (1) Art therapy can be used as one of the at-risk junior high school students’ programs, actively assist the psychological treatment of at-risk junior high school students. (2)School counselors conduct art therapy inbasic training course, conducted youth counseling work. (3)The complete group course, in order to facilitate the at-risk junior high school students to effectively enhance well-being and self-esteem. (4)To develop collaborative relations favorable overall development of the at-risk junior high school students. 2.Suggestions for future research (1) Rresearch tools: to have a scale whichean establish the reliability and validity of the at-risk junior high of school student. (2) Research methods: mining mode of action research to study. (3) The study sample: the future can be extended to different areas of junior high school, to expand the scope of this study to increase the number and improve the statistical study sample test force.