The Effect of the Group Program for Improving Self-esteem of Children Exposed to Family Violence on Self-esteem, and the Internalization and Externalization Problem
AUTHOR : 박지현,최지영
INFORMATION : page. 91~112 / 2016 Vol.23 No.3
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to develop a group program for improving self-esteem and alleviating
internalization and externalization problems of children exposed to family violence, and to verify the effectiveness
of this program. In the documentary study, self-esteem was confirmed a very important psychological trait. The
program developed by Hye Won Yang(2002) was revised and supplemented, which is the programs of
DAP(Domestic Abuse Project of Minneapolis) and CAS(Children’s Aid Society of London and Middlesex) and the
combined intervention program of Alessi and Hearn under the basic frame of self-growth group counseling and
traumatic approach of a group psychological treatment program. The subjects of research consisted of a total of
14 elementary schoolchildren living at the women’s shelter. Seven elementary schoolchildren(3 males, 4 females)
were arranged into the experimental group and 7 elementary schoolchildren(3 males, 4 females) were organized
into a control group. The program was conducted with pre-post control group design, and the collected data
were analyzed with a Mann-Whitney U test. As a result, the experimental group showed a significant change in
self-esteem, and the internalization and externalization problems. In contrast, the control group did not show
statistically significant changes when it came to self-esteem, and the internalization and externalization problems.
As for qualitative analysis of individual cases, there were analyzed through a combination of assessment records
for session that participants made, and through post-study questionnaires completed by the mothers of the
children and assessment records of researchers and assistants. This study is significant in that it provided
information about the core factors of a self-esteem improvement group program for children exposed to family
violence.