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Peer reviewedMunley, Maripat – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2002
Explores whether children with AD/HD respond differently to a specific art directive. Using the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale to evaluate the drawings, results indicate three elements that would most accurately predict the artists into the AD/HD group: color prominence, details of objects and environments, and line quality. (Contains 29…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Attention Deficit Disorders, Childrens Art, Hyperactivity
Peer reviewedHagood, Maralynn M. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2002
Investigates the use of three art-based instruments using imagery that measure children's cognitive development. Suggests that Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices, the British Picture Vocabulary Scale, and the Naglieri Draw-A-Person Test would be useful tools for art therapists to more systematically view children's drawings from a developmental…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Children, Childrens Art, Cognitive Development
Download full textMalchiodi, Cathy A. – 1994
Although many clinicians use drawing tasks to assess children who have been exposed to family violence, few professionals are aware of current research in this area. Professionals should be apprised of the graphic indicators of child abuse in drawings, reliable art-based assessment tools, and legal and ethical principles surrounding the use of…
Descriptors: Art Expression, Art Therapy, Child Abuse, Child Behavior
Thakur, P. S. – 1982
This paper considers the psychological aspects of children's drawings. The utility of the Draw a Person Test (DAPT) for different types of pscyhological research is discussed, and the non-intellectual and cultural factors of the DAPT are described. Suggestions on the administration, scoring, and interpretation of drawings are given. The next two…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Child Development, Children, Childrens Art
Malchiodi, Cathy A. – 1993
Although art therapy has traditionally focused on the use of art expression in psychotherapy, the practice of medical art therapy has begun to grow rapidly. This paper provides a brief overview of the emerging specialty of medical art therapy and its importance as a counseling tool with people suffering from serious health problems. The paper…
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Cancer, Child Health, Childrens Art
Ulman, Elinor, Ed.; Dachinger, Penny, Ed. – 1996
The essays in this collection are grounded in theoretical underpinnings which range from Freud to Montessori. The focus encompasses educational and psychiatric concerns. Essays are organized in 4 parts. Part 1, "Theory of Art Therapy," includes: (1) "Art Therapy: Problems of Definition" (Elinor Ulman); (2) "Therapy is Not Enough: The Contribution…
Descriptors: Art Activities, Art Education, Art Products, Art Therapy
