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Attachment-Based Classifications of Children's Family Drawings: Psychometric Properties and Relations With Children's Adjustment in Kindergarten

Pages 244-255 | Published online: 07 Jun 2010

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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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Angeliki Kallitsoglou, Vasiliki Repana & Monica Shiakou. (2022) Children’s family drawings: association with attachment representations in story stem narratives and social and emotional difficulties. Early Child Development and Care 192:8, pages 1337-1348.
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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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Ji Young Yoon, Donna Betts & Sue Holttum. (2020) The bird's nest drawing and accompanying stories in the assessment of attachment security. International Journal of Art Therapy 25:2, pages 76-87.
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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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Brittany L. Bannon, Linda G. Tirella & Laurie C. Miller. (2016) Children's drawings: self-perception and family function in international adoption. Early Child Development and Care 186:8, pages 1285-1301.
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B.J. Zvara, W.R. Mills-Koonce, P. Garrett-Peters, N.J. Wagner, L. Vernon-Feagans & M. Cox. (2014) The mediating role of parenting in the associations between household chaos and children’s representations of family dysfunction. Attachment & Human Development 16:6, pages 633-655.
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DanielleH. Dallaire, Anne Ciccone & LauraC. Wilson. (2012) The family drawings of at-risk children: Concurrent relations with contact with incarcerated parents, caregiver behavior, and stress. Attachment & Human Development 14:2, pages 161-183.
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KazukoY. Behrens & Nancy Kaplan. (2011) Japanese children's family drawings and their link to attachment. Attachment & Human Development 13:5, pages 437-450.
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Limor Goldner & Miri Scharf. (2011) Children's Family Drawings: A Study of Attachment, Personality, and Adjustment. Art Therapy 28:1, pages 11-18.
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Irene Fihrer & Cathy McMahon. (2009) Maternal state of mind regarding attachment, maternal depression and children's family drawings in the early school years. Attachment & Human Development 11:6, pages 537-556.
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IsabelleD. Cherney, ClairS. Seiwert, TaraM. Dickey & JudithD. Flichtbeil. (2006) Children’s Drawings: A mirror to their minds. Educational Psychology 26:1, pages 127-142.
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Kim Leon & Duane Rudy. (2005) Family Processes and Children's Representations of Parentification. Journal of Emotional Abuse 5:2-3, pages 111-142.
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Sheri Madigan, Susan Goldberg, Greg Moran & David R. Pederson. (2004) Naïve observers' perceptions of family drawings by 7-year-olds with disorganized attachment histories. Attachment & Human Development 6:3, pages 223-239.
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SHERI MADIGAN, MICHELLE LADD & SUSAN GOLDBERG. (2003) A picture is worth a thousand words: Children's representations of family as indicators of early attachment. Attachment & Human Development 5:1, pages 19-37.
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Judy Dunn, Thomas G. O'Connor & Irit Levy. (2002) Out of the Picture: A Study of Family Drawings by Children: From Step-, Single-Parent, and Non-Step Families. Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology 31:4, pages 505-512.
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S. Nic Gabhainn, M. Mullally, D. Donovan & P. Sammon. (2001) Community arts in schools: Effects on self-esteem and attainments in primary school children. The Irish Journal of Psychology 22:3-4, pages 269-276.
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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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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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Fatemeh Derafshi, Ashkan Naseh & Sajjad Rezaei. (2021) Comparison of Aggressive and Depressive Reactions, and Regression Defence Mechanism in Siblings of Children with and without Autism Spectrum Disorder and Down Syndrome based on Family Drawing Test. Quarterly Journal of Child Mental Health 8:2, pages 17-29.
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Limor Goldner, Rachel Lev-Wiesel & Bussakorn Binson. (2021) Perceptions of Child Abuse as Manifested in Drawings and Narratives by Children and Adolescents. Frontiers in Psychology 11.
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Marjolein Zee, Kathleen Moritz Rudasill & Debora L. Roorda. (2020) “Draw Me a Picture”. The Elementary School Journal 120:4, pages 636-666.
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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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Rebecca Carr-Hopkins, Calem De Burca & Felicity A Aldridge. (2017) Assessing attachment in school-aged children: Do the School-Age Assessment of Attachment and Family Drawings work together as complementary tools?. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 22:3, pages 402-420.
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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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Claire Brechet. (2015) Representation of Romantic Love in Children's Drawings: Age and Gender Differences. Social Development 24:3, pages 640-658.
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Cecilia Serena Pace, Giulio Cesare Zavattini & Renata Tambelli. (2015) Does family drawing assess attachment representations of late-adopted children? A preliminary report. Child and Adolescent Mental Health 20:1, pages 26-33.
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Karyn B. Purvis, L. Brooks McKenzie, Erin Becker Razuri, David R. Cross & Karen Buckwalter. (2014) A Trust-Based Intervention for Complex Developmental Trauma: A Case Study from a Residential Treatment Center. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal 31:4, pages 355-368.
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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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Plousia Misailidi, Fotini Bonoti & Georgia Savva. (2012) Representations of loneliness in children’s drawings. Childhood 19:4, pages 523-538.
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Monica Shiakou. (2011) Representations of Attachment Patterns in the Family Drawings of Maltreated and Non‐maltreated Children. Child Abuse Review 21:3, pages 203-218.
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H. Elif Dağlioğlu, Ümit Deniz & Adnan Kan. (2010) A study on the emotional indicators in 5-6 year-old girls’ and boys’ human figure drawings. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2:2, pages 1503-1510.
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Ann Colley, Gerry Mulhern, Sarah Relton & Suzana Shafi. (2009) Exploring Children's Stereotypes Through Drawings: The Case of Musical Performance. Social Development 18:2, pages 464-477.
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Kim Leon, Tamar Wallace & Duane Rudy. (2007) Representations of Parent?Child Alliances in Children's Family Drawings. Social Development 16:3, pages 440-459.
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Linda J. Harrison, Leanne Clarke & Judy A. Ungerer. (2007) Children's drawings provide a new perspective on teacher–child relationship quality and school adjustment. Early Childhood Research Quarterly 22:1, pages 55-71.
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Eleonora Gullone, Thomas H. Ollendick & Neville J. King. (2006) The Role of Attachment Representation in the Relationship Between Depressive Symptomatology and Social Withdrawal in Middle Childhood. Journal of Child and Family Studies 15:3, pages 263-277.
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