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This case study was an application of the developmental art therapy to a mentally retarded child for the purpose of improving his(or her) self-expression.
Subject was a child who diagnosed mental retardation at K university hospital and showed lack of self-expression. His(or her) developmental level was preoperational stage, and He(or she) attended at kindergarten. Art therapy session has been conducted total of 28 sessions, two or three times per week form February 12th 2007 to May 10th, 2007, and each session was 40 minute. This program was designed with two parts: first term was the preparation stage that designed to arouse the subject's interest, and the second term was the stage in which the subject could fully express himself(of herself) through the given tools.
The assessment tools were Development Assessment(Aach-Feldman & Kunkle -Miller, 1987)and the HTP(House-Tree-Person) Drawing Test.
The study results were followed, `First, the developmental art therapy increased a mentally retarded child's self-expression.
Second, the developmental art therapy increased a mentally retarded child's self-expression.
Third, the developmental art therapy changed the outcomes of self-expression item in HTP tests.
This study had a limitation of generalization as a case study, but it could be identified the effectiveness of the developmental art therapy for self-expression of a mentally retarded child.