When children require mental health services, clinicians need to conduct assessments that are developmentally sensitive and that include the child's point of view. Drawing is a popular tool that is commonly used in clinical settings. Research on drawing in experimental settings has confirmed that the...
By drawing upon recently completed research in Merseyside, and by situating the findings alongside a wider research literature, the discussion re-engages with the concept of the 'child in need'. The paper considers key issues relating to children, and professional social work practice with children...
Jack-o-lanterns drawn by kindergarteners were submitted to adult judges who were asked both to identify the child's gender from the drawing and to give reasons for the judgment made. Judges agreed that the characteristics distinguishing girls' from boys' drawings were use of details, neatness,...
Medical-legal partnerships: a new beginning to help Australian children in need. Drawing on the strengths of both the medical and legal professions can reduce health inequities and preventable illnesses in children from vulnerable families. In response to frequent reports on high-risk injuries and ...
It was found that some drawing strategies varied in relation to drawing materials and in relation to the precise characterisation employed. The results are discussed in terms of the need for interpretations of emotional information in children's drawings to take account of the exact materials used....
'Drawing the future', the biggest survey of its kind ever conducted, asked primary school children aged seven to eleven to draw a picture of the job they want to do when they grew up. Over 20,000 entries have been received from UK and Internationally. To ascertain the factors influencing ...
Children's Drawing Club Kids can learn drawing here. They can find drawing is so interesting. They can learn how to draw animals and plants.We have a good teacher and her name is Li Ying. She can help your children love to draw and find it's easy to draw the things. Our telephone ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of the D-A-P in the diagnosis of neurologically based learning disability. It attempted to find any patterns and/or signa in the drawinga of the human figure which could be ayatematically used to differentiate the impaired child with a ...
by drawing them or giving them (the problems) names. This allows for the exploration of other stories that challenge or contradict the ‘problem’, e.g. a time when the child got to sleep well, even though they had tinnitus, or the creation of new stories and new ways of thinking ...
Kieren (1995) describes partitioning as the drawing and/or folding actions of children as they try to create parts of the same size when engaging with partitive quotient tasks. Empson et al. (2006) include in their definition of partitioning 'mental as well as materially expressed actions' ...