PSY 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Osteoporosis, Neuroticism, Etiology
Arrangement or Selection Techniques
➢ Sandplay
Controversy if diagnostic or clinical assessment or therapeutic tool
Society for Sandplay Therapy has supported it as psychotherapeutic (Mitchell &
Friedman, 1994)
Most research individual case studies
➢ Three more promising techniques
Family does a collective drawing
Use of puppets with the family
Use of puppets in diagnostic interviews
• Focuses is on analyzing the form and content of the child’s play with the
puppets.
Expression mTechniques
➢ House-tree-person
➢ 3 separate drawings of a house, tree, and a person
House reflects the home situation
Tree represents relationship of self to the environment, and the person represents
the self.
➢ Kinetic-House-Tree –Person
All on one paper
Allows understanding of the of the interconnections among the three figures and
the action of the person.
➢ Kinetic-Family-Drawing
Family doing something together
Allows for clearer understanding of family dynamics
Strengths/Limitations of Projective Measures
➢ More difficult to fake
➢ Useful with nonverbal and/or child clients
➢ Opening into world that other techniques do not provide
➢ Higher proportion of errors
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Document Summary
Controversy if diagnostic or clinical assessment or therapeutic tool. Society for sandplay therapy has supported it as psychotherapeutic (mitchell & Use of puppets in diagnostic interviews: focuses is on analyzing the form and content of the child"s play with the puppets. 3 separate drawings of a house, tree, and a person. Tree represents relationship of self to the environment, and the person represents the self. Allows understanding of the of the interconnections among the three figures and the action of the person. Allows for clearer understanding of family dynamics. Opening into world that other techniques do not provide. A serious condition marked by an inability to maintain a normal healthy body weight. Affects 1% of the general population (1 out of 100) Females are 9x more likely to develop the disorder. Highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder (10. 5x more likely) Segments of the population where emphasis is placed on body shape and weight.
