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This study's aim was to corroborate the effects of art therapy accompanied with Parents' Counselling on the children's control of depression/anxiety. The study subjects were the child, 6-year-old, with depression/anxiety disorders and her parents. From May 2007 to Apr. 2008, 32 art therapy sessions in total were conducted once a week and each session took 50minutes. Both the mother and the child took part in three sessions, and the child only in 29sessions. As the evaluation tools, Kovacs' Children's Depression Inventory(CDI), State Anxiety Inventory for Children(SAIC) were conducted before and after the session. Each session the child's behaviors were analyzed by comparing the changes in the test scores. Also problematic behaviors of the child were documented each session and described by the counsellor after analyzing the subjects' behavior through observation of the mother and counsellor together. The results of this study are as follow. First, the art therapy programs accompanied with Parents' Counselling were effective for reducing the depression of the children. Second, these programs were effective for reducing the anxiety of the children. The results above may support the effectiveness of art therapy to treat the children's depression/anxiety. In addition, Parents' Counselling and the 3sessions which both the mother and the child took part in gave positive effects mother to understand her child and brought positive changes in her parenting attitude by expressing the inner thoughts of the mother and by communicating with the symbolic meanings of the artworks. Accordingly, from the results of this study can be very useful to reduce a level of depression/anxiety of children.