ART THERAPY ASSESSMENT EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
House-tree-person - Correct Answers -House: associated with family ties and conflicts
surrounding the home life semicolon house represents the place where affection and
security are sought
Tree: deeper and possibly more long standing, unconscious feelings about the self,
one's life roles and capabilities
Person: A more direct expression of real-life feelings, body image, self concept, both
physically and psychologically
House drawing - Correct Answers -a typical house should have these essential
features: at least one door, one window, a roof, & a chimney
examples: no door may symbolize difficulty allowing others in, door that's hard to reach
without steps may symbolize interpersonal inaccessibility
FEATS - Correct Answers -Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale
"Draw a person picking an apple from a tree"
Linda Gantt
Ages: All ages
Materials: 2 kinds of markers (regular and scented)
12 x 18 paper
Purpose: diagnosis
Assessment comes with a rating scale. The categories that are rated are: prominence of
color, color fit, implied energy, space, integration, logic, realism, problem solving,
developmental level, details of objects and environment, line quality, person, rotation,
perseveration
Family Art Evaluation - Correct Answers -K what know ska
Ages: All
Purpose: understanding the family system
Materials: hard-edged crayon and paper
Directive: The family is asked to do a series of tasks. This generally takes 1 to 1 1/2
hours for a family of 4-5 to complete.
1. Free drawing
2. Family portrait
3. Abstract family portrait
, 4. Individual scribble drawing
5. Joint family scribble
6. Free drawing
Go from less threatening to more complex, crayons so kids can do, boundaries etc.
KFD - Correct Answers -Kinetic Family Drawing
Burns & Kauffman
Ages: all
Asked to draw everyone in family doing something
Assess perception of self and family; interpersonal relationships
Actions, style, symbols
Size, distance etc.
Kinetic House-Tree-Person - Correct Answers -Burns
Purpose: Designed to understand human development: Individual transformation
process, reflections of self, and relationship to the environment.
KATE designed to tell a story
Materials: 1 sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper horizontal and pencil, KATE manual for scoring
Directive: Draw a house, tree, person with some kind of action
House: physical aspects of person's life
Tree: life energy
Person: client
Rated according to levels derived from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (5 highest).
Attachments presence or absence, figure other than self present, and additional figures
present.
Rawley Silver - Correct Answers -Stimulus Drawings, Draw a Story
Coping styles, cognitive etc.
Choose 2 or more cards and make a picture and write a story about drawing
Relatedness of images to one another
Can administer to assess cognitive and creative skills. 3 drawing tasks that look at
abilities in areas: sequential concepts, spatial concepts, association and formation of
concepts
Magazine Photo Collage Assessment (MPC) - Correct Answers -Landgarten
All four tasks are devised as catalysts for free Association projections. This assessment
reveals a variety of clinical issues, including depression, psychosis, and overall level of
functioning and relatedness.
Magazine photo collage it was designed to allow clients FROM ANY CULTURAL
BACKGROUND to be evaluated.
Materials: scissors, glue, boxes of sorted magazine photos (magazine images must
contain multicultural images, especially faces from a variety of backgrounds)
1st task: Look through the box of MISCELLANEOUS items and pick out pictures that
catch your attention. Pay some on the paper. Then, write directly onto the page, or tell
me, anything that comes to your mind about each picture.
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
House-tree-person - Correct Answers -House: associated with family ties and conflicts
surrounding the home life semicolon house represents the place where affection and
security are sought
Tree: deeper and possibly more long standing, unconscious feelings about the self,
one's life roles and capabilities
Person: A more direct expression of real-life feelings, body image, self concept, both
physically and psychologically
House drawing - Correct Answers -a typical house should have these essential
features: at least one door, one window, a roof, & a chimney
examples: no door may symbolize difficulty allowing others in, door that's hard to reach
without steps may symbolize interpersonal inaccessibility
FEATS - Correct Answers -Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale
"Draw a person picking an apple from a tree"
Linda Gantt
Ages: All ages
Materials: 2 kinds of markers (regular and scented)
12 x 18 paper
Purpose: diagnosis
Assessment comes with a rating scale. The categories that are rated are: prominence of
color, color fit, implied energy, space, integration, logic, realism, problem solving,
developmental level, details of objects and environment, line quality, person, rotation,
perseveration
Family Art Evaluation - Correct Answers -K what know ska
Ages: All
Purpose: understanding the family system
Materials: hard-edged crayon and paper
Directive: The family is asked to do a series of tasks. This generally takes 1 to 1 1/2
hours for a family of 4-5 to complete.
1. Free drawing
2. Family portrait
3. Abstract family portrait
, 4. Individual scribble drawing
5. Joint family scribble
6. Free drawing
Go from less threatening to more complex, crayons so kids can do, boundaries etc.
KFD - Correct Answers -Kinetic Family Drawing
Burns & Kauffman
Ages: all
Asked to draw everyone in family doing something
Assess perception of self and family; interpersonal relationships
Actions, style, symbols
Size, distance etc.
Kinetic House-Tree-Person - Correct Answers -Burns
Purpose: Designed to understand human development: Individual transformation
process, reflections of self, and relationship to the environment.
KATE designed to tell a story
Materials: 1 sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper horizontal and pencil, KATE manual for scoring
Directive: Draw a house, tree, person with some kind of action
House: physical aspects of person's life
Tree: life energy
Person: client
Rated according to levels derived from Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (5 highest).
Attachments presence or absence, figure other than self present, and additional figures
present.
Rawley Silver - Correct Answers -Stimulus Drawings, Draw a Story
Coping styles, cognitive etc.
Choose 2 or more cards and make a picture and write a story about drawing
Relatedness of images to one another
Can administer to assess cognitive and creative skills. 3 drawing tasks that look at
abilities in areas: sequential concepts, spatial concepts, association and formation of
concepts
Magazine Photo Collage Assessment (MPC) - Correct Answers -Landgarten
All four tasks are devised as catalysts for free Association projections. This assessment
reveals a variety of clinical issues, including depression, psychosis, and overall level of
functioning and relatedness.
Magazine photo collage it was designed to allow clients FROM ANY CULTURAL
BACKGROUND to be evaluated.
Materials: scissors, glue, boxes of sorted magazine photos (magazine images must
contain multicultural images, especially faces from a variety of backgrounds)
1st task: Look through the box of MISCELLANEOUS items and pick out pictures that
catch your attention. Pay some on the paper. Then, write directly onto the page, or tell
me, anything that comes to your mind about each picture.
