Art Therapy for Students Academic Stress

Abstract

The academic stress phenomenon which experienced by many students that they encounter in daily life, if not dealt-with immediately, will affect the students life. Art therapy techniques can be used to reduce the academic stress of school students. The purpose of this study is to measure the effectiveness of art therapy technique to reduce academic stress. The research design applied is quasi experimental with one-group experimental pretest-posttest design. Purposive sampling technique is used and obtained by 11 students who have high level of academic stress. The Wilcoxon test is used to analyze the data that obtained in this research.