This study aims to at explore the current research trend drawn from
studies on arts therapy programs pertaining to domestic school violence and
conduct meta-analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of arts therapy program.
The subject was selected from the doctorate and Ph. D. dissertations on arts
therapy programs for school violence and research results registered on
academic journals from 2000 to 2015. For a systemic literature review,
articles have been selected from the RISS, the National Assembly Library,
and other databases. using key word such as school violence, aggressiveness,
delinquency, art therapy, music therapy, dance/movement therapy, and
integrated art therapy. Then, an analysis was conducted on 90 dissertations
that were retrieved, and the results are as followed. In terms of independent
variable, art therapy program comprised 77.8 percent of overall therapy
programs while studies on aggressiveness comprised 37 percent of studies
related to dependent variables. The outcome confirmed that the magnitude of
effect was large as the influence of arts therapy’s protective factor on school
violence was .808 and the influence of the risk factor –1.44. Overall, this
study is very meaningful in that it probes the research trend of arts therapy
that relates to school violence, identifies the magnitude of effects through
meta-analysis, and provides empirical data that can anticipate specific effects
of an arts therapy program on school violence based on its operational
method.