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Understanding Children's Drawings
Cathy A. Malchiodi
Foreword by Eliana Gil
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"Where children are concerned, art happens! Now, at long last, we have a clearly stated, common sense guide to using art in therapy that will prove invaluable to all clinicians who see children in their practice. This book is refreshingly comprehensive, including state-of-the-art thinking on developmental, interpersonal, gender, somatic, spiritual, and ethical aspects of children's drawings. Richly illustrated and sensitively written with a child's best interests in mind, Understanding Children's Drawings is destined to become a classic."
-Carol Thayer Cox, MA, ATR, LPAT, George Washington University
"This carefully crafted and sensitive book will undoubtedly become a standard text for all clinicians who work with children. A comprehensive range of timely issues are covered with a balanced, caring tone that only a highly respected and experienced teacher and therapist could produce....Literature reviews and exquisitely presented case examples and illustrations provide an exciting platform for classroom discussion."
-Gerald D. Oster, PhD, University of Maryland Medical School
"This multidimensional approach to understanding children's drawings is rich in research, insight, and applications that will be of immense help to those working with traumatized children."
-William Steele, MS, MSW, Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
"A wide variety of therapists who work with children, including myself, stock our therapy rooms with toys, art materials, sandtrays, and miniatures. It seems to me that when we do so we invite our child clients to engage with these materials. This invitation is an awesome opportunity to facilitate, enhance, and promote the child's therapy. Yet clinicians may not take full advantage of what they can learn from children's art....This book will greatly enhance your understanding."
-From the Foreword by Eliana Gil, PhD, Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy
-Carol Thayer Cox, MA, ATR, LPAT, George Washington University
"This carefully crafted and sensitive book will undoubtedly become a standard text for all clinicians who work with children. A comprehensive range of timely issues are covered with a balanced, caring tone that only a highly respected and experienced teacher and therapist could produce....Literature reviews and exquisitely presented case examples and illustrations provide an exciting platform for classroom discussion."
-Gerald D. Oster, PhD, University of Maryland Medical School
"This multidimensional approach to understanding children's drawings is rich in research, insight, and applications that will be of immense help to those working with traumatized children."
-William Steele, MS, MSW, Institute for Trauma and Loss in Children
"A wide variety of therapists who work with children, including myself, stock our therapy rooms with toys, art materials, sandtrays, and miniatures. It seems to me that when we do so we invite our child clients to engage with these materials. This invitation is an awesome opportunity to facilitate, enhance, and promote the child's therapy. Yet clinicians may not take full advantage of what they can learn from children's art....This book will greatly enhance your understanding."
-From the Foreword by Eliana Gil, PhD, Starbright Training Institute for Child and Family Play Therapy