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aterini D. Gari et al. Family drawing Class drawing
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Table 9 Judges’ Scores for the John’s Case . .
FDGRS grades . .
Vitality/Creativity . .
Sense of pride/Happiness . .
Susceptibility . .
Emotional distance/Isolation . .
Volume/Anger
Role Reversal
Bizarreness/Disorganization
proach his peers. There are no clear signs that a school class is depicted, even
as a room in space or at least as a group of people-pupils and teacher.
John’s Case. John’s parents visited the University Laboratory when John was
7 years old and he was going to start B grade. Parents were asking for help
about managing their son’s specific emotional and behavioural problems,
something that troubles his teacher as well. His mother described him as a
child who is constantly curious about everything, watching documentaries;
he likes doing mathematical calculations in his mind even with negative
numbers and generally he is a child ready to absorb information. He has a
strong, leader personality and high sense of justice. The main problem was
that he has intense outbursts of anger, jealousness and commanding atti-
tude towards his siblings. These problems began mostly after his sister birth.
In his family plan, he had drawn himself between two parents holding
hands while, his siblings a little away from the centre of the family, probably
implying a hidden desire to distance himself from the subgroup of siblings
(Klepsch & Logie, 1982). Central figure in the drawing is the mother, which is
clearly taller than everybody else. His own-self figure was designed in details
and quite groomed; According to Burns and Kaufman (1970) it may indicates
that the person is influenced by the imagination or the fulfilment of a desire.
The high scores of the judges on the two positive dimensions reflect the
vitality that characterizes his painting. The figures seeming cheerful, well de-
signed and with lots of details. Interaction between family members seems
to be welcomed, the bodies and heads are full (round), slightly looking as
moving. In general, it seems to be a united happy family which contributed to
the high rates of the dimensions Sense of Pride/Happiness. At the same time,
John’s drawing rated high at the negative dimension Role Reversal because
of the disproportion in size between himself and his father as they are almost
equal and generally because of the big size of the self-figure.
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. .
Table 9 Judges’ Scores for the John’s Case . .
FDGRS grades . .
Vitality/Creativity . .
Sense of pride/Happiness . .
Susceptibility . .
Emotional distance/Isolation . .
Volume/Anger
Role Reversal
Bizarreness/Disorganization
proach his peers. There are no clear signs that a school class is depicted, even
as a room in space or at least as a group of people-pupils and teacher.
John’s Case. John’s parents visited the University Laboratory when John was
7 years old and he was going to start B grade. Parents were asking for help
about managing their son’s specific emotional and behavioural problems,
something that troubles his teacher as well. His mother described him as a
child who is constantly curious about everything, watching documentaries;
he likes doing mathematical calculations in his mind even with negative
numbers and generally he is a child ready to absorb information. He has a
strong, leader personality and high sense of justice. The main problem was
that he has intense outbursts of anger, jealousness and commanding atti-
tude towards his siblings. These problems began mostly after his sister birth.
In his family plan, he had drawn himself between two parents holding
hands while, his siblings a little away from the centre of the family, probably
implying a hidden desire to distance himself from the subgroup of siblings
(Klepsch & Logie, 1982). Central figure in the drawing is the mother, which is
clearly taller than everybody else. His own-self figure was designed in details
and quite groomed; According to Burns and Kaufman (1970) it may indicates
that the person is influenced by the imagination or the fulfilment of a desire.
The high scores of the judges on the two positive dimensions reflect the
vitality that characterizes his painting. The figures seeming cheerful, well de-
signed and with lots of details. Interaction between family members seems
to be welcomed, the bodies and heads are full (round), slightly looking as
moving. In general, it seems to be a united happy family which contributed to
the high rates of the dimensions Sense of Pride/Happiness. At the same time,
John’s drawing rated high at the negative dimension Role Reversal because
of the disproportion in size between himself and his father as they are almost
equal and generally because of the big size of the self-figure.
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