The purpose of this study is to prove the effectiveness of the collage group art therapy on resilience for
recovering mothers after birth. I chose 211 mothers who have children attending several kindergarten
schools in S city in Korea and conducted a test of resilience on them. I then narrowed the number of
mothers by selecting those who marked their resilience point below 190. From this pool, the mothers who
agreed to the study were formed into two parts per school: a control and experiment group. Each group
consisted of eight mothers whose children attended the same kindergarten. In total, the study consistsed of
48 mothers in six groups. Analysis of the test results were conducted by comparing the mothers’ collages
before and after the study, through a Korean resilience quotient developed by Kim Juhwan(2011), and
quantitatively through the tree drawing test with its t-test and χ². The summary of the results are as
follow. First, the collage group art therapy is effective in boosting the resilience of mothers given recent
birth and its sub-factors. Secondly, the collage program proves to cause positive change in some parts in
the tree drawing. Third, the collage group art therapy results in a positive change in drawing. In
conclusion, research confirms the effectiveness of the collage method as psychological support for new
mothers, adding to the available base of research on effective programs to recover resilience.