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Children's Family Drawings: A Study of Attachment, Personality, and Adjustment

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Pages 11-18 | Published online: 14 Apr 2011

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Holly Rosen, Geoff Goodman, Donna Tuman & Deborah Ohm. (2023) Uncovering the Mental World of Children: Attachment Quality, Mental State Talk, and Children’s Drawings. Journal of Infant, Child, and Adolescent Psychotherapy 22:4, pages 336-357.
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Cecilia Serena Pace, Stefania Muzi, Francesco Madera, Alessandra Sansò & Giulio Cesare Zavattini. (2022) Can the family drawing be a useful tool for assessing attachment representations in children? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Attachment & Human Development 24:4, pages 477-502.
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Peter D. Rehder, W. Roger Mills-Koonce, Nicholas J. Wagner, Bharathi Zvara & Michael T. Willoughby. (2021) Attachment quality assessed from children’s family drawings links to child conduct problems and callous-unemotional behaviors. Attachment & Human Development 23:3, pages 239-256.
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Limor Goldner & Yifat Golan. (2016) Parental Representations and Attachment Security in Young Israeli Mothers' Bird's Nest Drawings. Art Therapy 33:4, pages 186-194.
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Corinne Syrnyk. (2014) Capturing the Nurture approach: experiences of young pupils with SEBD. Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties 19:2, pages 154-175.
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Veronique Giasson, Isabelle Daigneault & Martine Hébert. (2014) New Scoring Method of the Family Drawing for Sexually Abused Preschoolers. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse 23:2, pages 160-178.
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Joshua Kin-man Nan & LisaD. Hinz. (2012) Applying the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS) to Adults in an Asian Population. Art Therapy 29:3, pages 127-132.
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Limor Goldner & Miri Scharf. (2023) Do children’s family drawings reflect adaptation in early years of elementary school?. The Arts in Psychotherapy 86, pages 102084.
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Benjamin Beltzung, Marie Pelé, Julien P. Renoult & Cédric Sueur. (2023) Deep learning for studying drawing behavior: A review. Frontiers in Psychology 14.
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Wilma A. Bainbridge. (2021) A tutorial on capturing mental representations through drawing and crowd-sourced scoring. Behavior Research Methods 54:2, pages 663-675.
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Geoff Goodman, Valeda F. Dent, Donna Tuman & SeungYeon Lee. (2022) Drawings from a play-based intervention: Windows to the soul of rural Ugandan preschool children’s artistic development. The Arts in Psychotherapy 77, pages 101876.
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Haowen Yin, Suning Qian, Fengqiu Huang, Huibin Zeng, Casper J. P. Zhang & Wai-Kit Ming. (2021) Parent-Child Attachment and Social Adaptation Behavior in Chinese College Students: The Mediating Role of School Bonding. Frontiers in Psychology 12.
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Ziva Ariela Barel - Shoshani & Shulamith Kreitler. (2021) Breast cancer surgery as expressed in self figure drawings. The Arts in Psychotherapy 75, pages 101841.
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Anna Gerge, Inge Nygaard Pedersen, Gustavo Gattino & Margareta Wärja. (2020) The body in the mind – Assessing the phenomenal self through paintings created by gynaecological cancer survivors. The Arts in Psychotherapy 71, pages 101691.
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Cecilia Serena Pace, Viviana Guerriero & Giulio Cesare Zavattini. (2020) Children’s attachment representations: A pilot study comparing family drawing with narrative and behavioral assessments in adopted and community children. The Arts in Psychotherapy 67, pages 101612.
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Anat Zaidman-Zait, Miri Yechezkiely & Dafna Regev. (2020) The quality of the relationship between typically developing children and their siblings with and without intellectual disability: Insights from children's drawings. Research in Developmental Disabilities 96, pages 103537.
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Tami Gavron & Ofra Mayseless. (2018) Creating Art Together as a Transformative Process in Parent-Child Relations: The Therapeutic Aspects of the Joint Painting Procedure. Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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Michal Bat Or, Andriani Papadaki, Or Shalev & Elias Kourkoutas. (2018) Associations Between Perception of Parental Behavior and “Person Picking an Apple From a Tree” Drawings Among Children With and Without Special Educational Needs (SEN). Frontiers in Psychology 9.
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Lilian Kloft, David Hawes, Caroline Moul, Sonia Sultan & Mark Dadds. (2017) Family Drawings before and after Treatment for Child Conduct Problems: Fluidity of Family Dysfunction. Journal of Child and Family Studies 26:12, pages 3476-3489.
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Limor Goldner, Ora Gazit & Miri Scharf. (2017) Separateness and closeness as expressed in Bird’s Nest Drawings: Relationships with partners and with the unborn child among expectant parents. The Arts in Psychotherapy 53, pages 1-11.
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Amanda R. Hiles Howard, Erin Becker Razuri, Casey D. Call, Jamie Hurst DeLuna, Karyn B. Purvis & David R. Cross. (2017) Family drawings as attachment representations in a sample of post-institutionalized adopted children. The Arts in Psychotherapy 52, pages 63-71.
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Ariane Gernhardt, Heidi Keller & Hartmut Rübeling. (2016) Children's Family Drawings as Expressions of Attachment Representations Across Cultures: Possibilities and Limitations. Child Development 87:4, pages 1069-1078.
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Limor Goldner, Ayelet Abir & Shira Caren Sachar. (2016) How do I look? Parent–adolescent psychological boundary dissolution and adolescents’ true-self behavior as manifested in their self-drawings. The Arts in Psychotherapy 47, pages 31-40.
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Limor Goldner, Maya Edelstein & Yaara Habshush. (2015) A glance at children's family drawings: Associations with children's and parents’ hope and attributional style. The Arts in Psychotherapy 43, pages 7-15.
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Gaelan Harmon-Walker & Donna H. Kaiser. (2015) The Bird's Nest Drawing: A study of construct validity and interrater reliability. The Arts in Psychotherapy 42, pages 1-9.
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Valeria Biasi, Paolo Bonaiuto & James M. Levin. (2015) The “Colour Family Drawing Test”: Assessing Children’s Perception of Family Relationships. Studies on Mental Health and Cross-Cultural Comparisons. Health 07:03, pages 300-307.
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Limor Goldner. (2014) Revisiting the Bird's Nest Drawing assessment: Toward a global approach. The Arts in Psychotherapy 41:4, pages 391-399.
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Limor Goldner & Miri Levi. (2014) Children's family drawings, body perceptions, and eating attitudes: The moderating role of gender. The Arts in Psychotherapy 41:1, pages 79-88.
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Limor Goldner & Miri Scharf. (2012) Children's family drawings and internalizing problems. The Arts in Psychotherapy 39:4, pages 262-271.
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