The Effects of Group Art Therapy Using Korean Painting Material on Self-Expression of the Elderly Patients with Dementia

Traditional Korean Art Materials as Therapeutic Media: Multicultural Expansion Through Materials in Art Therapy

“…The researchers acknowledged a few recent studies in applying traditional Korean art materials in practice, such as the use of Meok (ink) and Hanji Sojung Park is Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education; Hyunjung Lee is a doctoral student for Integrated Art Therapy; Seungeun Kim is a doctoral student for Integrated Art Therapy; and Yuri Kim is a master's student for Art Therapy Education at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, South Korea. Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to the first author at csnn@ewha.ac.kr (the traditional Korean paper) for adult inpatients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia (Park, 2011;Seok, 2011) and geriatric clients in the early stage of Alzheimer's disease (Chae & Moon, 2018). However, Jung and Kim (2018) criticized the lack of in-depth and qualitative research into traditional Korean art materials as therapeutic media, since most of the previous studies had been limited to pre-and post-tests to prove the efficacy of interventions rather than focusing on the therapeutic characteristics of the materials.…”