59-05-032 Proceeding

355 Proceedings of the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Congress 3. Art therapy programwith 10 art activities developed incorporating cognitive behavioral therapy to use for treatment of depression in orphans. These art activities are as follows; a) Nice to meet you, b) Free children, c) Adding up happiness, d) Open heart, e) Amazing me, f) Little junior surveyor, g) Adventurous journey, h) Playful Innovator, i) Tale of dream, j) Junior photographer. Data Collection 1. Pretest the sample groups for depression using Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI). 2. Used art therapy intervention with the sample groups. The duration is 10 weeks, one week one art therapy session, and each session use one hour and thirty minutes. 3. Sophisticated observation using interviews, video recording, art therapist’s own observation, and art products for gathering in-depth data. 4. Posttest the sample groups with the same Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI) after the 10 weeks art therapy program period. 5. Used SPSS program to analyze the pair t-test statistic results. Results The results after the art therapy intervention on the sample groups are as follows; 1. Therapeutic results of art therapy programinterventionon the 5 orphanswithdepression completed the 10 art activity sessions with the Children’s Depression Inventory before and after and were statistically compared using the pair t-test. The result was statistically significant at .05 which denotes that the depression was satisfactorily mitigated. 2. All sample groups’ behaviors were improved in better ways after completionwith the 10 art activities. They became freer in expression, verbally improved, confidence, emotionally stable, and happier and more relax. Discussion and Conclusions The therapeutic results of art therapy programinterventionon the 5 orphanswithdepression completed the 10 art activity sessions was positive with the statistically significant at .05 which denotes that the depressionwas satisfactorilymitigated. In this art therapy, art remain a central tool that is powerful inworking with the children expressions, as RattanakornWattanakorn (2008: 49) said that art activities stimulate the children’s freer expression emotional and suppress feelings, and thus been in the process of emotional stability and self-security feeling development.This conceptual idea is also analogy to the ideas of Padungsak Kochasumrong (1999: 49) as he said that art activities are very necessary tool to be usedwith students for enhancing their physical, intellectual, and social development, as well as, the art itself helps the students to learn and accept their own experiences. In this study, the art activities were incorporated with the cognitive behavioral therapy in clinical psychology to be a new approach of art cognitive behavioral therapy (ACBT), in which this new approach is efficient for the treatment on orphans’ depression. Chalida Rachatapongthorn (1999: