푸드아트테라피를 적용한 가정어린이집 원장의 직무스트레스상담 사례분석

A Case Study of a Childcare Center Director With Job Stress Applied Food Art Therapy

This case study conducted personal counseling 12 sessions using the Food Art Therapy to reduce the job stress of the childcare center director. The entire process of counseling was structured by greeting, focusing on her mind, making snacks. The counselor made interventions by techniques such as looking at the whole, making metaphors, confrontation, challenging, while building basic relationship with the client. The client experienced a positive recognition expansion through the stage of awareness and deep understanding by composing and reconstructing. As a result, the client had experience of meeting with true ‘self’ through emotional expression, and the job stress was reduced. In conclusion, this study suggests that the process of composition-reconstruction of Food Art Therapy is an effective way to the transformation and extension of positive insight. It was reconfirmed that self-understanding and self-love emphasized by Food Art Therapy is a basic foundation for resolving problems by restoring life power and confirming self- presence.