Abstract
This study explored the recovery process of damaged self-feeling of a 13-year-old boy who experienced peer bullying. Through 23 non-face-to-face counseling sessions using ImageTale app, the child created virtual images and tales which expressed his own self-feeling as various animals and plants. The vulture, pig, snake, and trees often appeared in images as self-symbols of the child and the metaphors related with feeling, goodness, secrets, creature, desire, protection and wounds were expressed in child's tales. The themes of images and stories created by the child were about child’s self, friends, family, past experiences, abstractions and daily life. And the child’s constructed emotions were changed in the order of depression, alienation, ambivalence, fear, joy, courage, expectation, beauty, love, happiness and calmness. It was confirmed that the child’s healthy self-feeling was formed as the child deconstructed and recategorized the painful emotions caused by the past experiences of peer bullying. The applicability of ImageTale app as a new counseling medium based on the theory of constructed emotion with the results of this study was discussed.
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