The Silver Drawing Test and Draw a Story : Assessing Depression, Aggression, and Cognitive Skills (Hardcover)

List of Figures. Turner, Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction and Theoretical Background. Part I: Draw a Story, Screening for Depression and Aggression. Background. Reliability, Validity, and Depression. Aggression and Depression. Studies of Clinical and Non-clinical Populations.Part II: The Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion. Why and How the SDT was Developed and Field Tested. Administering, Scoring, and Examples of Scored Responses.Reliability and Validity. Normative Data. Using the Silver Drawing Test with Clinical and Non-clinical Populations.Part III: Use of Both Assessments by Practitioners in Florida and Abroad. Use of Both Assessments by Art Therapists in the Miami-Dade County Public Schools in Florida.Use of Both Assessments by Practitioners Abroad.Part IV: Developmental Techniques and Concluding Observations. Art Techniques for Developing Cognitive Skills. Discussion and Conclusions.Part V: Appendices. Appendix A: Silver Drawing Test Materials. Appendix B:Draw A Story Test Materials. Appendix C: The 50 Drawings in the Stimulus Drawing Assessment. References. Index.