Projective Drawing

Projective Drawing Techniques Draw-A-Person House-Tree-Person Test Kinetic Family Drawing

Draw-A-Person Instructions: –“I would like you to draw a picture of a person (do it any way you like, it’s up to you)” –Next: “Now I’d like you to draw a person of the opposite sex” –Next: Self –Next: A story about first picture Evaluate: –Client’s 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

House-Tree-Person Test Purported advantages over the DAP: –Patient’s 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

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