| Abstract [eng] |
The work is based on methodical theoretical ideas of self-appraisal by G.Allporty, B.G.Ananjev, E.Aronson, M.Betensky, L.I.Božovič, U.Džeims, A.Maslow, D.G.Myers, V.V.Stolin and on the art therapy‘s background by Dž.Allan, R.Buckland, S.Ignatjev, K,G.Jung, M.Kiseliov, A.Kopytin, L.Lebedev, A.Piličiausko, N.O.Sučkov, A.Vaitkevičienės. The analysis of the scientific literature of the self-esteem elicited a fact that physical and emotional changes at the age of adolescence cause the variety of psycological problems including the self-appraisal‘s disbalance. The sense of the self-appraisal at that period of life is not completely recognised and is quite controversial. It is conditioned by the self-evaluating his/her success being a student and the evaluation of their results and abilities by their associates.( the assessment made by adults and by children of his/her own age ) Seeing that teenagers spend most time in a group, the social status in the class plays the major role in the self-assesment. For these reasons the students with special needs, that permanently experience learning problems and feel socially isolated, often evaluate themselves unequal or have the low sense of self-esteem. To find how the art therapy affects the self-esteem of the students with special needs in year 5-6 there was carried out the qualitative and quantitative research. During the quantitative research fulfilled with the students in year 5-6 there were measured the averages of a global and differentiated self –viewpoint, levels of concrete operations and of self value degrees. These averages were compared with the art therapy‘s group members‘ self-appraisal parameters. After applying the art therapy methods most participants of the research changed the self-viewpoint into the positive one. It influenced their self-esteem. The underlying assumption is that the art therapy methods promote self-expression, give the great sense of achievements and change self-evalution. Art therapy‘s visual aids and the analysis of students‘ artworks allow to evaluate and anylise the individual changes of each art therapy group member‘s self-appraisal and self-viewpoint that were stated in the results of qualitative research. |
