Emotional indicators in children's human figure drawings

European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 86-91

  Catte, M ^a   Cox, M V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Assessment children's drawings; Emotional adjustment behavioural problems

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; DRAWING; EMOTION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032785411     PISSN: 10188827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s007870050089     Document Type: Article

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