This case study deals with a boy referred to the Seoul Dongbu Child Guidance Center as delinquency by the local child abuse prevention center and then cared for there. He was not looked after properly because of divorce, and ran away repeatedly from the neglected environment. In his emotional and social parts of him, he was depressed and helpless to change his poor situation, and alienated from peer group by himself. Living in the Center for about 29 months, he was demanded to participate in the therapeutic community program and individual counseling. In the initial stage, he was indifferent to participation in the activities of the program and defensive on self-disclosure in the counseling sessions, and showed the runaway problem over and over again. Going through the re-entering process after long-time runaway from the Center, he felt the communities warm support and truth on him. Besides, the communities pressure for change encouraged him to take part in the activities of the program and his feeling of attachment to the community cause his problems to decrease or to disappear. In addition to this, individual counseling and sand play therapy were used to deal with the problems on living in the center and to help him explore himself.