The Silver drawing test and draw a story
Subtitle: assessing depression, aggression, and cognitive skills
By: Rawley Silver
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780203942178
Subjects: Psychological tests for children; Aggressiveness in children; Risk Assessment; Cognition; MEDICAL; Testing; Depression in children; Child; Child & Adolescent; Psychological Tests; Diagnosis; Depressive Disorder; Psychiatry; Draw-A-Story; Aggression
Description: Art can be a means of communication. It can bypass language and impairment and become a means of communicating thoughts or feelings difficult to express with words. Offering tools to assess cognitive skills that often escape detection on verbal tests of intelligence, this book helps in identifying those at risk for violent behavior or depression.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Front cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Section I. Draw a Story: Screening for Depression and Aggression; Chapter 2. Background; Chapter 3. Reliability, Validity, and Depression; Chapter 4. Aggression and Depression; Chapter 5. Using Draw a Story with Clinical and Nonclinical Populations; Section II. The Silver Drawing Test: Drawing What You Predict, What You See, and What You Imagine; Chapter 6. Why and How the Silver Drawing Test Was Developed and Field Tested; Chapter 7. Administering and Scoring the Silver Drawing Test