Projective Drawing

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Projective Drawing
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Projective Drawing Techniques

• Draw-A-Person
• House-Tree-Person Test
• Kinetic Family Drawing

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Draw-A-Person

• Instructions
• I would like you to draw a picture of a person
  (do it any way you like, its up to you)
• Next Now Id like you to draw a person of the
  opposite sex
• Next Self
• Next A story about first picture
• Evaluate
• Clients approach
• What attributes represent
• Ideal vs. real self
• Quality of drawing
• Size and shape of body parts, detail
• Placement on page
• Quantitative vs. Qualitative Interpretation
• Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance

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House-Tree-Person Test

• Purported advantages over the DAP
• Patients feelings about home in house
• Less obvious
• Tree reflects emotional history, self. Deeper
  unconscious
• Instructions
• Draw each picture, then follow-up questions
• Evaluation
• Usually holistic interpretation
• Interpreted much like DAP

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Critique

• Reliability
• Quite variable across studies
• Validity
• Sometimes difficult to falsify predictions
• Quantitative approaches stronger than qualitative
• Lack of incremental validity