Human Figure Drawings and the Draw-A-Person: Screening Procedure for Emotional Disturbance

  • Achilles N. Bardos
  • Shawn Powell
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Part of the Perspectives on Individual Differences book series (PIDF)

Abstract

Human figure drawings (HFD) have been used for almost a century as ways to gather information about an individual’s cognitive as well as personality functioning. In 1926, Goodenough submitted one of the first scoring systems which could be used to determine mental abilities through drawings. From this early work, the use of HFD as measures of mental ability, or developmental level, has involved reviewing the content of drawings to obtain an estimate of a person’s mental abilities. When used for this purpose, an individual’s drawings are reviewed for specific content items such as represented body parts and clothes.

Keywords

Emotional Disturbance Screen Procedure Record Form Emotional Difficulty Intrarater Reliability 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Achilles N. Bardos
    • 1
  • Shawn Powell
    • 1
  1. 1.Division of Professional PsychologyUniversity of Northern ColoradoGreeleyUSA

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