Background:
A comprehensive assessment includes an evaluation of a person’s capacity to
identify and regulate emotions. Affect,
or emotional and behavioral regulation requires the capacity to identify
internal experiences of emotions. The
Heart Drawing was developed as a non-threatening method for assessing a child’s
capacity to identify emotions. Most
children enjoy drawing and the Heart drawing is usually experienced by the
child as non-threatening and enjoyable. The Heart Drawing is a new, easy to use,
and efficient tool that allows the clinician to assess a child’s affect
regulation functioning, affective range and experience in a non-threatening
manner. It can also be used to assess a child’s insightfulness and capacity to
identify internal affective experiences.
Method: The child is asked to select colors for the feelings mad, sad,
glad, and scared from a group of eight primary colors. These simple feelings represent the bulk of a
child’s emotional experience. The child
is then asked to draw a heart and to fill in the heart with the amount of each
feeling that the child usually feels.
Results: Administration and discussion usually takes ten to fifteen
minutes. Conclusion: The article
presents examples of drawing by children with various diagnoses and conditions
along with a normative drawing for comparison.
The methodology has been found to be very helpful in assessing a child's
emotional status and capacity to regulate emotions.
Author (s ) Details
Arthur Becker-Weidman
Center for Family Development, 5820 Main Street, Suite 406 Williamsville, NY 14221, New York, USA.
View Book: - http://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/book/165
Author (s ) Details
Arthur Becker-Weidman
Center for Family Development, 5820 Main Street, Suite 406 Williamsville, NY 14221, New York, USA.
View Book: - http://bp.bookpi.org/index.php/bpi/catalog/book/165
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