Research on insecure child attachments has found significant correlation between early attachment history and family drawing indicators, ruling out present day circumstances and IQ in children ages 8-9 years of low socio-economic status. The research contrasts two measures of attachment taken at 12 and 18 months, with the following assessments: Child behavior checklist (teacher reports), Maternal Life Stress [...]
Tag Archives: drawing interpretation
Art theories and drawings
There are many ways of apprehending children’s art, many conceptual windows from which artwork can be viewed. I re-read Betty Joe Troeger’s(1992) article : Application of child art theories to the interpretation of children’s art (in AT: JAATA). The paper is an overview of theories used to interpret children’s drawings. She lists nine influential theories [...]
Tree as self symbol
Assessment procedures that use the tree as a symbol are the HTP: House, Tree, Person Test (Buck, 1948); TDT Tree Drawing Test (Koch, 1952); DDS: Diagnostic Drawing Series (Cohen 1985); PPAT Person Picking an Apple from a Tree (Gantt 1990); TTM Tree Theme Method (Alexi & Gunnarsson 1995). A tree is often seen as a symbol of [...]
