An exploratory study of drawings by bereaved children.
Bereaved and non-bereaved children made drawings of a person, themselves, their family, and a topic of their choice; the drawings were then analysed to investigate whether the experience of bereavement was expressed in drawing in any reliable way. Bereaved children were no more likely than non-bereaved children to include indicators of emotional disturbance in their human figure drawings. Bereaved children, however, were reliably more likely than non-bereaved children to include themselves in a drawing of their family.
Forrest
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School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.
Thomas
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001154:Art; D001155:Art Therapy; D002648:Child; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development