This study was carried out to change the mother's raising way by applying
psychodynamic art therapy only to the mother, to recover a healthy mother-child
relationship, and to make better the behaviour of the child damaged by group bullying; this
is based on assuming that a child damaged by group bullying should be primarily subject
to the attitude of its mother to bring up her child.
For this study, a female child was referred who was damaged by group bullying at a
kindergarten for 6 months. It was observed at the first interview that her mother should
have various characteristic and raising problems, resulting in applying the psychotherapy to
her first of all.
This psychotherapy was performed with total 30 sessions of Feb 2001 to Jan 2002 at a
room for individual therapy of a W Welfare Institute in Taegu, and each therapy was done
for 50 min and on an average once per 2 weeks in the concentrated treatments -with her
mother. As a pre-test and a post-test. the Parental Acceptance-Rejection Questionare was
applied for observing the change of the mother's raising attitude, Social Experience
Questionnaire(SEQ) for observing a changed behaviour of the child, and K-H-T-P
(Kinetic-House Trc'C Person), and KFD (Kinetic Family Drawing) for a drawing test to all
of them.
A family drawing of the child and a drawing of her mother were very helpful to
understand their O\V1l problems in an objective view. In the first interview, the client has
expressed a hostility toward her parents in a diagnosis of nuclear feeling, the main
appealing problem and earlier childhood memories of her own one. In the middle of
psychotherapy, the client ,vas introduced to observe her own current problems and earlier
memories and experiences of her own one in connection ,vith the problems of her child.
And, in the ending therapy, the client could experience that her own change by herself
made her child and husband change their own behaviors in all respects, and finally made her damaged child cope with group bullying by itself.
So, this case report indicated that parent, cstx:cially mother psychotherapy be
preferentially prior to one for a child damaged by group bullying. Moreover, this result
strongly suggests that the child's group bullying should be originated with the negative
mother-child relationship and the hostile raising attitude of its mother.