The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of art therapy program
for the recovery of resilience of a young sexual offender. The study subject
is a college male freshman, who was ordered to attend a 20-hour lecture
program of preventing sexual offense by the Court of Family Affairs in city
A. He was arrested by violating the Act on the Protection of Children and
Juveniles’s Sex. The research tool used in the study is Korean Quotient of
Resilience-53, which was developed by Reivich & Shatté(2003) for adults,
and translated and revised by J. H. Kim(2011) for Korean. The results of
this study are; Firstly, the art therapy program has positive impact on the
resilience of the young sexual offender. The posttest result, measured after
the art therapy, shows a significant increase in his resilience, compared to
the pretest. Secondly, the art therapy program has positive influence on the
subordinate areas(self control, personal relations, and affirmation) of the
subject. These results implicate that art therapy helps the study subject
manage his inner desire and express his feelings securely, so diverse
changes are revealed in his self control, way of personal relations, and
affirmation. Through the result of this study, it was shown that the art
therapy approach has the effects of decreasing the violation rates of the
young sexual offenders.