중년기 이혼남성의 자기개념 변화에 대한 단일 사례연구

This is a case study on art therapy in a middle-aged divorced man who feels psycho-social difficulty due to divorce, and its purpose was to determine how art therapy affected self-concept of a middle-aged divorced man. For this purpose, art therapy was provided to a 40-year-old man who had been divorced for three years in a total of 22 sessions―two sessions a week, 90 minutes per session―from January 30 to April 16, 2017. The Sungshin Self-Concept scale was used to determine the quantitative changes after therapy and the Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) test and the Draw-a-Story (DAS) test which were performed to see the changes after therapy. The results were analyzed on the basis of the components of the Sungshin Self-Concept scale: self-esteem, emotional stability, and interpersonal reliability. On the basis of this conclusion, art therapy activity helped him express his repressed negative emotions in a healthy way, have his needs satisfied, and make internal integration against anger, thus making anxious emotions stable. The researcher's hugging environment provided him with receptive experience, so that he could perceive himself positively and have stable and ideal other-awareness. So art therapy positively affected a middle-aged divorced man's self-concept formation, and this case study on personal art therapy in a middle-aged divorced man is expected to give basic data that can be of help in clinical practice for researchers who try to solve psycho-social problems caused by divorce.