The Study On The Drawing Therapy For The Reform School Students’ Aggressiveness

The Reform School students belong to a special adolescent group. Because of the deficiency of family education, they tend to be aggressive in the daily life and can’t adapt to the regular school life. The Reform Schools usually choose to form the students’right habit through behavior-forming education and moral education, but they are not well accepted by the students, especially when they are detached from the special education environment. In this case, their aggressiveness will reappear, with the expected goal not reached.Drawing therapy is a category of psychotherapy that helps people express their confusion by the way of drawing and interpretation of the art so as to meet the desired efficacy. In the western countries, this method is widely applied to the clinical treatment of mental illness and group counseling of the special group, and group counseling through drawing has been gradually formed. Recently, some researchers in China have attempted to use this method for the ideological transformation of the criminals and mental health education.This thesis adopts questionnaire, experiment under natural conditions, case study and group counseling through drawing for the study of Reform School students’ aggressiveness. The conducting of questionnaire is aimed to acquire the difference in aggressiveness and sense of safety between the Reform School students, the regular school students and the Reform School students from different family backgrounds. In the experiment under natural conditions, the experiment’s design modes of the experimental group and control group are chosen. It consists of five steps with fourteen groups included in the drawing counseling, spanning for three months. In the case study, two typical cases are chosen to analyze the basic modes and strategies of the group counseling through drawing.The research shows:First, there is a big difference in the aggressiveness between the Reform School students and regular school students.Second, the Reform School students’ aggressiveness also varies from one to another because of different living environment and life experience.Third, although there is no apparent effect in the aggressiveness of the Reform School students though group counseling, the feedback from the students and case study show that there is a positive trend among the students with the form of "passive acceptance of counseling—fluctuation—active acceptance of the counseling—improvement".Thus, it can be concluded thatFirst, the living environment and personal experience contribute mostly to the students’ aggressiveness.Second, the group counseling through drawing is an efficient way to reduce the students’ aggressiveness.Last but not least, the efficacy of group counseling though drawing relies on the students’ living experiences, their acceptability toward this method, the consoler’s proficiency and strategies.