- Title
- The Kinetic-Tree-House-Person drawing test as a diagnostic instrument in assessment of sexually abused children and monitoring the effects of group play therapy
- Creator
- Donaldson, Marilyn Ann
- Subject
- Uncatalogued
- Date
- 1993
- Type
- Master's theses
- Type
- text
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/193140
- Identifier
- vital:45302
- Description
- This research project was developed from the idea that children's drawings reflect both their internal emotional lives and their external lived worlds. The subjects of the project were sexually abused children referred to Fort England Hospital during the first half of 1992. The Kinetic-Tree-House-Person projective drawing test was used as an instrument of assessment in conjunction with the Maudsley Child Psychiatric interview technique. Indications of the effects of sexual abuse were sought in drawing tests administered before and after interventions of ten sessions of group play therapy. Drawing tests were also administered to a control group of children. The research project explored the effectiveness of group play therapy interventions through comparison of pre intervention and post intervention drawings. The rationale for this project was the high incidence of rape and sexual abuse of prepubescent black young women in the Eastern Cape particularly, and in South Africa generally. There is need for both assessments of screening instruments and validation of therapeutic interventions if this problem is to be addressed adequately.
- Description
- Thesis (MA) -- Faculty of Humanities, Psychology, 1993
- Format
- computer, online resource, application/pdf, 1 online resource (135 pages), pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Psychology
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Donaldson, Marilyn Ann
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- Rights
- Open Access
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