Transforming feelings into concrete form also allows the therapist and child to interact, providing a bridge to the child's internal world. This helps the child to become aware of his own emotional state and helps the therapist to communicate with him about it. Drawing provides psychological relief to the child by permitting the internal distress, which children work painfully to keep private, to be externalized. Children in crisis, for example, withhold feelings because they touch on taboo subjects such as sexuality and violence. These subjects provide overwhelming shame or guilt.
Drawing is a nonverbal activity that succeeds in distancing the child from such immediate concerns.
As a result, the activity maintains the child capacity to cope. Click here .