The Child Drawing: Hospital (CD:H) was developed as a means of measuring the emotional status of hospitalized school-aged children. It has long been accepted that hospitalization is a major stressor for children (Erickson, 1963, 1972; Prugh, Staub, Sands, Kirschbaum, & Leinehan, 1953; Robertson, 1958; Thompson, 1985; Vernon, Foley, Sipowicz, & Schulman, 1965). If usual coping strategies are strained beyond children's abilities to manage the stress experienced in the hospital situation, anxiety results (Fosson, Martin, & Haley, 1990). The degree of anxiety experienced by any hospitalized child is unknown. Currently, we measure all children's physiological status (temperature, pulse, respiratory rate, and blood pressure) on admission to the hospital and at routine intervals. However, we do not systematically measure their emotional status. Behavioral indicators of anxiety such as crying or aggression may be recorded. The use of children's drawings as a projective technique to measure emotional status has long been established in clinical practice. Draw-a-Man (Goodenough, 1926, 1928; Goodenough & Harris, 1950; Harris, 1963), House-Tree-Person (Buck, 1948), Draw-a-Person (Machover, 1949, 1953), Human Figure Drawing (HFD) Test (Koppitz, 1968), and Kinetic Family Drawing (Burns, 1982; Bums & Kaufman, 1970, 1972) have been well supported as means of evaluating the emotional status of children in various life situations. Therefore, the same must be true for children experiencing hospitalization.