In the practice of art therapy, there are differing classic textbook assessments, each carrying a certain therapeutic value. There are ways of looking at the art that have nothing to do with its artistic merit. The drawing will tell you things. When someone turns the paper over and moves it around, I can tell that they can't focus. And a drawing that has three or four things going on simultaneously can show a fragmented psyche.
Some people do images of themselves as children.
If a person has an eating disorder, I might ask them to draw an image of it, and they'll draw themselves, or a meal. There is a classic visual test assessment of reaching for an apple on a tree. Another one, where you draw a house, a tree and a person, is one that a lot of psychologists use. The psyche will tell you what it wants to tell you. For two weeks, the ArtReach team worked in Sarajevo with 47 schools and 67 students.