The Purpose of this study was to increase self-efficacy through recognizing their thinking, behavior,
emotion and accepting themselves by group art therapy that can give sense of achievement of group
support and art works for runaway adolescents. The subject of this study was how group art therapy for
runaway adolescents work on self-efficacy. The participants of this study were 3 adolescents in the youth
shelter who wanted to take part in this program. This lasted from January, 2014 to March, twice a week
for 12 sessions at the counseling room in the youth shelter by their request. To measure Self-efficacy,
self-efficacy scale, PPAT were used, self-efficacy throughout the group art therapy process were analyzed,
and the achievement of the set-up goals by themselves were analyzed. The conclusion of this study are as
follows; First, there was positive changes on self-efficacy and on self confidence, self control-efficacy, task
difficulty control throughout the group art therapy process. Second, there were positive results on the space
of PPAT. Third, the achievement of the set-up goals by themselves had a positive change. The group art
therapy was effective on the self-efficacy for runaway adolescents, but the study has the problem of
generalization, so further studies through a variety of method are needed.