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Identifying Children and Adolescents with Depression: Review of the Stimulus Drawing Task and Draw a Story Research
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2009
This paper reviews a body of research on the author's Silver Drawing Test (SDT) and Draw A Story (DAS) art-based assessments, which span 40 years of development. The original impetus for the assessment is described and studies are reviewed that examined relationships between depression, abuse, and aggression; cognitive skills; interrater and…
Descriptors: Identification, Tests, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
Cultural Differences and Similarities in Responses to the Silver Drawing Test in the USA, Brazil, Russia, Estonia, Thailand, and Australia.
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 2003
Summarizes cross-cultural studies of cognitive skills, emotions, and self-images found in responses to drawing tasks by children, adolescents, and adults. Its aim is to find out whether cultural differences in scores on the Silver Drawing Test can illuminate cultural preferences and contribute to cultural practices. (Contains 21 references.) (GCP)
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Gender Parity and Disparity in Spatial Skills: Comparing Horizontal, Vertical, and Other Task Performances.
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1998
Asks whether different scoring systems can explain why many studies have found female failures in performing tasks that were designed to assess concepts of horizontality and verticality. Presents new findings involving 86 men and boys and 84 women and girls through which no significant sex differences were found. Discusses suggestions and…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Research Needs, Scoring
Sex and Age Differences in Attitude toward the Opposite Sex.
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1997
Examines fantasies about the opposite sex expressed by 116 children, adolescents, and adults responding to the Drawing from Imagination task of the Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion. Results indicate that both males and females expressed more negative than positive feelings toward subjects of the opposite sex. Males were more negative.…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Adults, Age Differences, Art Therapy
Gender Differences and Similarities in the Spatial Ability of Adolescents.
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1996
It is generally accepted that males are superior to females in spatial ability. To test this assumption, the Silver Drawing Test (SDT) was administered to students 12 to 15 years old (33 girls and 33 boys) attending public schools in Nebraska, New York, and Pennsylvania. No significant differences in spatial ability were found. (KW)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Art, Art Expression, Art Therapy
Gender Differences in Drawings: A Study of Self-Images, Autonomous Subjects, and Relationships.
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1992
Studied gender differences in drawings by 261 elementary school children responding to projective drawing task. Findings support assumption that children who respond to projective drawing tasks tend to identify themselves with principal subjects of their drawings. Most subjects drew pictures about subjects same gender as themselves. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Children, Childrens Art, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Age and Gender Differences Expressed through Drawings: A Study of Attitudes toward Self and Others.
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Silver, Rawley – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1993
Investigated gender and age differences in attitudes expressed in response to drawing task. Subjects (n=531) ranged in age from 7 to 65 years and older. Although proportionally more females than males drew pictures about relationships, and more males than females drew pictures about solitary subjects, differences did not reach statistical…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Art, Attitudes, Freehand Drawing