| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥2,990,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥690,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
BCDM is a psychotherapy technique that require participants to image the state of their mind and body and color monochrome body diagrams following after the image. Quantitative and qualitative effects of the Body-State Coloring Diagram Method (BCDM) were investigated through field tests on participants in different age groups and conditions. Subjective psychological evaluations, content of free descriptions conducted after the awareness, and color expressions were analyzed. Psychological effects were quantitatively defined, such as by using correlations between levels of stress and psychosomatic diseases, as well as changes in moods expressed in coloring work, among others. Results indicated that cases of depressive symptoms and irritable bowel syndrome improved by continuously using BCDM. Furthermore, a system for implementing this psychotherapy technique using tablet computer terminals to provide self-treatment have been developed and experimentally operated.
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