The aim of this study is to reduction of the nurturing attitudes and the nurture stress of parents with adolescent child by way of group art therapy with parent education. The subject is 14 parents with adolescent child, who live in K city. This group art therapy by way of parent education is carried out during 20 sessions for 150 minutes per session twice a week from July 9, 2009 to November 5, 2009. The measurement tool is the nurturing attitude scale of Youm Moon Hyun(1983), the nurture stress scale of Lee Kwi Won(1996), and PSL/SF. Also to examine out the maintenance of the effect of this program, the same nurturing attitude test and nurture stress test are carried out once before this program, once after this program for the research group. The research materials collected are scored by the scoring criteria of each
test. And the statistical analysis is carried out by SAS(ver.9.1.3), and by which the average and the standard deviation of the results at pretest, post test, and further test are valued, and then mixed repeated ANOVA is carried out. The results are as follows. Firstly, group art therapy with parent education is a significant difference in the category of the whole nurturing attitude and all the subcategories of the nurturing attitude and And there is not a significant difference between the scores of the post test and the further test. Secondly, group art therapy with parent education is a significant difference in the category of the whole nurturing attitude and all the subcategories of the nurturing attitude and And there is not a significant difference between the scores of the post test and the further test. In conclusion, it is clear that this group art program is effective on the change of the nurturing attitude of parents and on the reduction of nurture stress.
Key Words : Group Art Therapy with Parent Education, Parent's Nurturing Attitudes, Nurturing Stress