This study was conducted to investigate the effect of integrative art
therapy on ego-resilience of children from low income families. The subjects,
children from 8-11 years old from low income families were selected for
participant of G-gu Dream start center, Seoul. Eleven children who can
participate the program were assigned to the experimental group and 11
non-participant were assigned to the control group. To ameliorate the
ego-resilience of children, an integrative art therapy program which consists
of music therapy, art therapy, and play therapy was given to them. As a
protective factor, a separate integrative art therapy program which include
the mother-child group play therapy was given to their mother. These
programs were executed 21 sessions for 7 days in 4 weeks. The scores of
ERS & PAT were used to determine the degree of ego-resilience of children
and parent's attitude respectively and the values were analyzed by
independent t-test & paired t-test using SPSS 20.0 software. Then,
distinctive changes of each child observed were described. As results, the
ego-resilience of the children who participated in this integrative art therapy
program were changed significantly, especially in family relation, selfconfidence
& brightness and optimism & self acception factor. Therefore, the
result of this study indicates that an integrative art therapy program is an
effective treatment to ameliorate the ego-resilience of children from low
income families.