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The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story
Assessing Depression, Aggression, and Cognitive Skills
Art can be an invaluable means of communication. It can bypass language and impairment and allow for the expression of thoughts or feelings too difficult to communicate with words. In The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story, Rawley Silver draws on her years of experience using therapeutic art with...
Published May 31st 2007 by Routledge
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Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art
Using Draw-A-Story to Identify Children and Adolescents at Risk
A 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...
Published December 25th 2004 by Routledge
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Art as Language
Access to Emotions and Cognitive Skills through Drawings
Through the use of case studies and more than 150 illustrations of patient artwork, this book summarizes findings of cognitive development and art therapy practices....
Published January 11th 2001 by Routledge