Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Assessments (bridge drawing & favorite time of day)
Bird's Nest Drawing (BND)
In adults, attachment is evaluated in terms of relationship styles (secure, dismissing-avoidant, preoccupied, and fearful-avoidant).
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS)
Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment (LECATA)
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
(DDS) using the (DAF)
Lowenfeld
-Thanks for this, Jac!
Discuss developmental creative markers & Lowenfeld’s developmental levels.
“Many art therapy practitioners believe that assessments provide increased understanding of a client’s developmental level, emotional status, and psychological framework.” (Betts)
1. The Scribbling Stage: Beginning of Self-Expression (2-4 years)
2. The Preschematic Stage: First Representational Attempts (4-7 years)
3. The Schematic Stage: The Achievement of a Form Concept (7-9 years)
4. The Gang Age: The Dawning Realism (9-12 years)
5. The Pseudo-Naturalistic Stage: The Age of Reasoning (12-14 years)
6. Adolescent Art: The Period of Decision (14-17 years)
(Taken from Creative and Mental Growth 8th ed, by Viktor Lowenfeld and W. Lambert Brittain)
bEnDeR-gEsTaLt
Agnosia – inability to visually identify
Hemianopia – half loss of visual field
Scotoma – small lesions, spots in visual field
Optic Ataxia – deficit in visually guided hand movements
Prosopagnosia – facial agnosia Alexia – inability to read
Neglect