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Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story Assessing Depression, Aggression, and Cognitive Skills

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ISBN-10: 0415955343

ISBN-13: 9780415955348

Edition: 2nd 2007 (Revised)

Authors: Rawley Silver

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Thoroughly updated, this book includes techniques to assess aggression and depression that may lead to violence in schools and suicide among children and adolescents. It also addresses important gender and age differences, and offers an in-depth look at the developmental procedures involved in these art assessments.
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Book details

Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 6/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 318
Size: 8.46" wide x 10.98" long x 0.67" tall
Weight: 1.650

List of Figures
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Why the Assessments Were Developed and How They Evolved
Theoretical Background
Quantitative and Qualitative Findings
How the Book Is Organized
Draw a Story: Screening for Depression and Aggression
Background
Why DAS Was Developed and How It Evolved
Administering the DAS Assessment and Scoring Responses
Examples of Scored Responses to the DAS Task
Reliability, Validity, and Depression
Diagnostic Criteria
The Scale for Assessing Emotional Content
The Scale for Assessing Self-Image
Identifying Self-Images without Meeting the Adolescents Who Drew Them
The Validity and Reliability of the Emotional Content and Self-Image Scales
The Scale for Assessing the Use of Humor
Studies of Depression
The Self-Report and Masked Depression
Aggression and Depression
Comparing Aggressive and Nonaggressive Groups
Results
Questions and Implications
Predatory Aggression, Humorous Responses, and Reactive Aggression
Humorous Responses
Reactive Aggression
Masked Depression and Gender Differences
Male Responses
Female Responses
Additional Findings and Observations
Using Draw a Story with Clinical and Nonclinical Populations
Adolescents with and without Emotional Disturbances
Age and Gender Differences in Attitudes toward Self and Others
Sex Differences in the Solitary and Assaultive Fantasies of Delinquent and Nondelinquent Adolescents
Ellison's Use of DAS with Delinquent Adolescents
Turner's Use of DAS with Adolescents Who Experienced Abuse
Wilson's Use of DAS with Patients Who Had Brain Injuries
Dunn-Snow's Use of DAS with Emotionally Disturbed Children and Adolescents
Coffey's Use of DAS in a Psychiatric Hospital
Brandt's Use of DAS with Adolescents-Sex Offenders, the Depressed, and the Typical
The Silver Drawing Test: Drawing What You Predict, What You See, and What You Imagine
Why and How the Silver Drawing Test Was Developed and Field Tested
The SDT Tasks: Drawing from Imagination, Predictive Drawing, and Drawing from Observation
Predictive Drawing
Drawing from Observation
Children, Adolescents, and Adults with Disabilities
A Demonstration Project for Children and Adults with Hearing Impairments
Two Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibitions
The State Urban Education Project
Children with Visual Motor Disorders
National Institute of Education Project for Children Performing below Grade Level
Discussion
Administering and Scoring the Silver Drawing Test
The Predictive Drawing Task
Examples of Scored Responses to the Predictive Drawing Task
The Drawing from Observation Task
Examples of Scored Responses to the Drawing from Observation Task
The Drawing from Imagination Task
Examples of Scored Responses to the Drawing from Imagination Task
The Reliability and Validity of the Silver Drawing Test
Interscorer Reliability
Retest Reliability
Correlations between the Silver Drawing Test and Traditional Tests of Creativity and Achievement
Concluding Remarks
Normative Data
Scores for Assessing Emotions and Cognitive Skills
Emotional Content, Self-image, and the Use of Humor
Mean Scores and Gender Frequencies
Using the Silver Drawing Test with Clinical and Nonclinical Populations
Cognitive Skills
Age and Gender Differences
Attitudes
The Use of Both Assessments by Practitioners in Florida and Abroad
Use of the Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story by Art Therapists in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida
Overview
Mark and Lanette
Peter
Julio, Treatment Planning, and the SDT
The SDT and DAS as Tools for Interdisciplinary Treatment Planning
Mario and Hispanic Students in the United States
Use of the Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story by Practitioners Abroad
Russia
Thailand
Brazil
Australia
Turkey
Conclusion
Developmental Techniques and Concluding Observations
Developmental Techniques
Objectives
Techniques for Developing Cognitive Skills
A 12-Session Art Program
Discussion and Conclusions
Aggression
Depression
Gender Differences and Similarities
Age Differences and Similarities
Cognitive and Creative Strengths and Weaknesses
Using the SDT and DAS Together
Cultural Differences and Similarities
Concluding Observations
Appendices
The Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion
Drawing What You Predict, What You See, and What You Imagine
The SDT Predictive Drawing Task
The SDT Drawing from Observation Task
Drawing What You Imagine, Form A, Silver Drawing Test
Drawing What You Imagine, Form B, Silver Drawing Test
SDT Layout Sheet
The SDT Drawing from Imagination Task
SDT Classroom Record Sheet
Record Sheet for Responses to the SDT Drawing from Imagination Task
Forms for Assessing Individual Responses to the Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion (SDT)
Silver Drawing Test Assessment
Draw a Story
Draw a Story
Draw a Story, Form A
Draw a Story, Form B
Draw a Story
Guidelines for Scoring Responses to the Draw a Story Assessment
Record Sheet for Responses to the Draw a Story Assessment
Results of the Draw a Story Assessment
Stimulus Drawing Cards
Group A (People)
Group A (People)
Group A (People)
Group B (Animals)
Group B (Animals)
Group C (Things)
Group C (Things)
Group D (Places)
Group D (Places)
Group X (Food or Things)
References
Index