Abstract
Children paintings carrying therapeutic value are important in understanding for the child's feelings and thoughts, unconscious desires and inner world. Paintings based on therapeutic cooperation may be perceived as a way of communicating with the child. The primary aim of the present study is to explain the significance of children paintings which help abstract experiences to provide a concrete basis for therapeutic cooperation while counselling children. The importance of the use of paintings while working with children is examined the titles of the linear development of the child, colour in children's paintings, the use of children's paintings in psychological counselling with children, the phenomenon of the family and interpersonal relationships in children's paintings, the interpretation of the child paintings of his family. Finally, the study is intended to encourage and increase the use of children paintings in the practice of school counsellors and other mental health professionals. Keywords: Children, psychological counselling with children, children paintings.
Highlights
First studies on children’s paintings had begun in 1921 when Burt used drawing a human painting as one of the elements of a few intelligence tests
Making use of family paintings for understanding children is practiced since 1930s
In 1931 Appel and in 1942 Wolff had emphasized that family paintings are helpful in understanding personalities of children (Malchiodi, 2005)
Summary
First studies on children’s paintings had begun in 1921 when Burt used drawing a human painting as one of the elements of a few intelligence tests. Drawing paintings is an indispensable tool of children psychology during pre-school stage and since they are products created by children’s own feelings and thoughts is quite important. Paintings enable the child to express its secret feelings in its own inner world and an experienced incident. Child displays subconscious feelings and behaviours when it draws paintings of its family. It reflects its perception of itself in its family to the painting If it feels himself rejected by the family, it draws itself at a place separate from its family. Painting is an expressive tool that enables child to reflect its intelligence, personality, characteristics of its inner circle and its inner world. Painting enables us to understand family problems, communication problems and emotional problems child is faced with (Serin, 2003). Narrative properties of children’s paintings and interest shown by children to tell these present therapist the ways of viewing things from the perspective of the child (Malchiodi, 2005)
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