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Objectives：The significance of this study lies in verifying the effects of clinical art therapy on self- esteem and the Motivation for Rehabilitation of patients of stroke after recovery. Methods：Subjects were consisted of 14 stroke patients and were divided into two groups；control (n=7) and experimental (n=7) groups. The before and after plan for comparing inequalities was adopted and the experimental group received clinical art therapy for 60 minutes, once a day, for the total of 14 sessions. The self-esteem index and Motivation for Rehabilitation after treatment index were used as research tools, and the measured data were analyzed with ttest using the SPSS/WIN 12.0 program. In addition, K-HTP picture analysis inspection and changes before and after clinical art therapy were also carried out to qualitatively analyze effects of intervention. The clinical art therapy process was analyzed according to sessions and individuals. Results：In the experimental group, there were statistically significant improvements in the self-esteem and the Motivation for Rehabilitation after recovery (P<0.05) thanks to clinical art therapy. Conclusion：Clinical art therapy has a positive effect on improvement of self-esteem and the Motivation for Rehabilitation for stroke patients recovering from the disease. This indicates that clinical art therapy can effectively be adopted as rehabilitation treatment for stroke patients. (Journal of The Korean Academy of Clinical Art Therapy 2008;3(2):95-103)