The object of this study is to show the effectiveness of the group art
therapy concerning children's emotional intelligence in facilities. This program
contains four categories including emotion recognition & expression, emotion
facilitation in thoughts, application of emotional knowledge, and emotion
control which are subordinated sections in emotional intelligence based on the
recent emotional intelligence model. Also, it is divided by three levels
concerning development of recognition ability, emotion development, and
expansion of observed objects which are psychiatric mechanism and
composed of 10 sessions. The subjects were 20 shelter-resident children and
10 of them were assigned to the experimental group and the others were to
the control group. Only the experimental group members participated in this
program two times a week for 90 minutes, respectively. In order to verify
the effectiveness, we conducted pre & pro emotional intelligence examinations
and analyzed the differences and covariation(ANCOVA). As a result, the
experimental group showed positive effectiveness in the improvement of their
emotional intelligence compared to the control group. There are some
outstanding differences in sub-sections including thinking facilitation, emotion
control, and empathy. Therefore, we certify that the group art therapy helps
the improvement of children's emotional intelligence in facilities. Therefore,
we were certain that the group art therapy program would be helpful for
shelter-resident children to adjust themselves in societ