Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Akademik Sosyal Araştırmalar Dergisi, cilt.11, sa.143, ss.140-154, 2023 (Hakemli Dergi)
It can be said that the main goal of psychotherapy approaches is to change
dysfunctional attitudes and behaviors. The therapeutic effectiveness of
psychotherapy methods that lead to change, in other words, the establishment of a
causal relationship between the change in the target behavior, symptom or disorder
and the intervention is examined through effectiveness studies. Emotion regulation
processes play an important role in the development of many psychopathologies.
The aim of this study is to examine the effect of the art therapy program on
reducing the emotion regulation difficulties of individuals and to compare it with
the effect of the same practices on reducing the emotion regulation difficulties of
individuals participating in art therapy training, which is carried out in an
experiential way. In the study, art therapy program was applied to the first experimental group and art therapy training was applied to the second experimental
group. Psychology undergraduate and psychology graduate students participated in
the study. Individuals who scored high on the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation
Scale and volunteered were assigned to the first experimental group (11) and the
second experimental group (11) by random sampling method. The program was
applied to both experimental groups once a week for a total of ten sessions, each
session lasting 180 minutes. The same program developed by the program
coordinator was applied to both groups. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test was used to
compare the groups within each other. As a result, it was found that the emotion
regulation difficulties of the individuals who participated in the art therapy
program decreased, and the difference between the mean pre-test and post-test
scores of the individuals who participated in the art therapy training program was
not significant at the .05 level. From this point of view, treatment motivation is an
important issue for art therapy as in other treatment methods. It can be stated that
being ready for change and taking steps towards recovery is an important factor in
emotion regulation.