本研究旨在探討攝影輔助療法對護理之家老人心理需求滿足之影響。研究參與者為中部某護理之家8 位住民，輔療方式分為兩階段進行，前7 次為攝影輔療團體，後3 次為個別攝影輔療。攝影輔療團體每週聚會一次，一次90 分鐘，連續進行7 週，再針對需要個別輔療之兩位成員進行3 次個別攝影輔療。攝影輔療團體課程設計包括三部份：第一部分，主動式攝影療法、第二部份，被動式攝影療法；第三部分，主題動態迷你錄影與分享。研究者根據攝影輔療活動之觀察所得，進行資料蒐集與分析，並以「平均相互同意度」建立分析信度。依分析過程所顯聚之概念進行半結構式編碼。最後總結四個面向呈現攝影輔療對於老人之影響：(1)認知(2)情緒(3)人際關係(4)靈性需求；並統整出影響攝影輔療效果之環境因素。本研究依據發現提出結論與建議，以回饋未來攝影輔療相關研究與實務工作。

The Purpose of this study is to explore the influences of phototherapy group for nursing home residents. The participants of this study are average on 83 years old nursing home residents in Taiwan. The phototherapy group for these old people lasted for 7 sessions. The group met once a week and took 90-minute phototherapy each time. The group exercises including 3 parts-(1)taking photograph actively, (2)taking photograph passively, (3)videotaping actively. Among those sessions, additional 3 individual phototherapy sessions were afforded for 2 special participants due to the personal special needs. The data were collected by 4 observers’ records. And establish the intercoder reliability.85 by 3 raters. The findings were expounded with cross-case analysis which included 5 dimensions- the influences of phototherapy group on cognition, emotion, interpersonal relationship, spiritual needs, and the factors of influences of phototherapy. These findings will be going to feed back to nursing home and senior department as to improve both of the quality of phototherapy training courses and practical service.