The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group art therapy programs using ‘Eum’ parent education
on parents’s emotional empathetic capacity and communication between parents and children. The subject of this
study was 10 parents who have teenage children subscribed by one of the youth support centers in the city U.
The parent education program was noticed for 15 days and 20 people applied it voluntarily. Among them 10
parents willing to participate this group counseling program were assigned randomly as an experiment group and
the other 10 wanted to join the program next semester as a control group. The test of parents’ emotional
empathetic capacity and communication between parents and children for the experiment and control group was
practiced in the form of pre-post test in order to examine the effectiveness of the program. Exploiting a statistics
program, SPSS/WIN+18.0, the average and the standard deviation was found to each measure. As to find out the
difference between the experiment and control group, ANCOVA on the scores of the post-test was used to t when
the pre-test scores of each group were set as a covariance. The findings in this study were the following: First, the
parents’ emotional empathetic level of the experiment group who took part in the group art therapy program with
the help of ‘Eum’ parental education increased more than that of the control group. Second, the level of
communication between parents and children increased more than that of the control group. In the light of these
findings, the group art therapy programs using ‘Eum’ parent education may be an effective program for improving
parents’s emotional empathetic capacity and communication between parents and children. The self-changes of
parents followed by this program, therefore, can be beneficial for the advance of parents’ understanding children
and emotional empathetic capacity and for rational communication between them.