attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd) is the most common behavioral problem during childhood and in school-aged children. various projection drawings have been designed for assessing children's personality and psychological disorders including the tests of draw a person (dap) and draw a family (daf). we aimed to compare the differences between typically developing children and childre...

Diagnosis in Mental Deficiency is a complex task, for it is based on a variety of factors some of which have, at the first sight, no close relations to the others. The investigation of a patient who is supposed to be mentally defective is, as a rule, done before his admission to a Mental Deficiency Hospital. Various authorities, such as the Local Education and Public Health Authorities as well ...

draw-a-man test (dam) as projection of a person’s inner world can provide information about people interests, anxieties, defenses and inhibitions. the aim of this study was to investigate indicators of aggression in dam test in primary male school students. materials and methods: in this explanatory study 57 male student in third grade of a primary school of khorramabad city were selected by co...

This study explores how children’s drawings, as rated on the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale (FEATS), are related to their emotional and behavioral health. Participating students (ages 8-16, N=53), attending a therapeutic day school for students with emotional and behavioral disorders, drew a picture of a person picking an apple from a tree (PPAT). A discriminant function analysis indicated t...

objectives : body image is defined as image and feelings of an individual about size, form and parts of his or her body. the present study aimed to investigate the body image disturbance in a group of patients. method: the present descriptive and cross-sectional study was conducted with a group of patients with diagnosis of schizophrenia (12 females and 15 males) and a group of subjects without...

Cerebral palsy is a multiple disability manifested by motor deficits and impairments of cognition, language, and body perception. To assess if body schema and body image distortion in children and youth with cerebral palsy can be represented through draw-a-person-test, outcome measure of conscious and subconscious body awareness, visual perception and cognition in two age-matched groups, one wi...

In this study, the Draw-A-Man Test was administered to 183 Iranian children, 96 boys and 87 girls from age of 36 to 119.5 months. The subjects were selected randomly from middle-class families in Tehran. The results show that younger Iranian children scored higher than the older ones. In addition to the age differential on performance, sex differences on drawing a man were tested by means ...