One of the drawings that most catches our attention is the drawing of the family by a child, it is with the drawing of the family that shows their position in the family environment, their affection and their jealousy.
So how do you interpret a child’s family image?
- A familiar drawing can give us clues about a child’s situation at some point in his or her life.
- We cannot make a diagnosis through a simple drawing.
- But it provides us with information that needs to be analyzed with other tools.
- Design is important.
- But it doesn’t define everything.
- It’s an expression of feelings and desires that can help us interpret how the child feels about family.
- School.
- Etc.
Children’s drawings evolve as they mature physically and emotionally
? Until the age of three it is the doodle phase, which gives us little information, they are simple risks that still lack engine control, the child draws unentionally, uncontrolled and disorderly.
? Between the three and six years he tries to draw according to his reality and perception, the drawings are already meant to reproduce something, he begins to use the pencil but draws incomplete human figures.
? Between the age of six and ten, the child is perfectly capable of using the pencil and his “mistakes” can be interpreted from an emotional sense.
? After ten years these are important drawings that show us all their emotional world, the drawings give an impression of depth and remoteness, and the child looks at the details and becomes demanding, at this point, he is ashamed to show his drawings.
Louis Corman began studying the design of the family. Other researchers have perfected his theory.
Family drawings study the following aspects
1. The graphic level
The aesthetic value of the drawing is not analyzed, but the size of the figures, the shape and pressure of the lines and the drawing as a whole.
The child is balanced when his drawing is large, with continuous lines, with the right line pressure and in the center of the sheet. The figure shown in larger size and in more detail is the most important.
2. The level of content
Is it important to ask the child to draw a family?And not “his family. ” This way, you won’t feel pressured and show in the drawing how you feel.
It is common for children to be jealous of their siblings, they do not put the brother in their drawings, only she and her parents, when we ask about their brother they say that he is gone or that he is sleeping.
Usually, the child is placed in the middle of the parents, because that’s where he feels safest, it’s not uncommon to be next to one of them, so you need to know why, if you spend a lot of time with him. or would like to spend.
Lack of hand drawing in some characters may indicate a lack of affectivity.
It is these details that show how important drawing is between the child and the adult world.
Image courtesy of Roberto Cacho