The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of cognitive behavior art therapy on learning stress
of middle school students. The cognitive behavior art therapy program is consisted to degrade the main
factors of learning stress such as academic factors, human relationship factors, environmental factors and
career factors based on theory of cognitive behavior therapy. Among the whole 3rd grade of middle school
students at C-city in Gyeongsangnam-do, the authors selected 16 students with the top 16 stress scores for
learning stress and classified them into experimental group and controlled group. The experimental group
underwent 12 sessions of cognitive art therapy program for 50 minutes at twice a week. In order to verify
the results of this study, the authors underwent learning stress questionnaire at both pre-therapy and
post-therapy as analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) for statistical analysis. Also, for the qualitative analysis,
the authors underwent PITR (person-in-the-rain) projection picture for comparison and analysis. The
summaries of results of the study are as followed. First, the cognitive behavior art therapy showed
significant effects on decrease of learning stress of middle school students. The cognitive behavior art
therapy showed significant effects on decreased of expectation and inside stress among the 3 subfactors
(expectation, inside, expression) for learning stress. Second, the cognitive behavior art therapy showed
positive changes in the qualitative analysis, likewise, PITR (person-in-the-rain) projection picture. It was
verified that the cognitive behavior art therapy lessens stress recognition and improve the score of stress
coping ability by improving the stress coping sources in the end. This is the similar results with the
quantitative study which showed that the cognitive behavior art therapy showed significant decrease of
learning stress.