Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art

Name: Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

Art therapy has long been an invaluable tool for therapists working with children, allowing them access to emotions and experiences that their young patients may be unable or unwilling to express verbally. > \nA study of more than two hundred children using Rawley Silver's draw a story test showed a strong correlation between aggression or depression and certain types of artistic narratives; meanwhile, unbeknownst to Silver, a pair of Russian therapists were using Silver's assessment tests in a similar fashion with Russian children and achieving similar results. \nAggression and Depression Assessed Through Art: Using Draw-A-Story to Identify Children and Adolescents at Risk came about as a result of these studies, but the book's scope goes beyond the numbers to investigate the connections between a child's expression through drawing and his violent behavior. The text, written mostly by Silver but with chapters contributed by therapists from both the United States and Russia, compa.