This study was applied by the Art therapy to ill-treated adolescent runaways in order to retum them home and into the community.
One adolescent was female, 18 years old who was ill-treated by her parents and ran away over 10 times, dìsplaying emotional anxiety shown by ear problems and hostility against her fami1y. She had been admitted to a youth shelter 4times.
There were 17 sessions and each session 1asted approximate1y 1hour to 1hour 30minutes. They were administered with several art therapeutic techniques including KFD, KSD, HTP etc .. As a result, they could succeed in returning the individual to her home by family art therapy. Furthermore rejoining the community gave financial app1ication and al10wing her to enter the school she had wanted to.
Consequently, it was found that the art therapy was effective in this case.