10/3/2015

TheKineticFamilyDrawingTestinArtTherapy

Home
Home Page
Creative Counseling?
HowToeBooks
Creative eBook
Play Therapy eBook
Sand Tray eBook
Group 101 eBook

TheKineticFamilyDrawingTest
inArtTherapy
I first learned about the Kinetic Family Drawing
Technique from a school psychologist who uses this
valuable art therapy tool in educational testing.
Later, I applied the Kinetic Family Drawing to the doll
house in play therapy and then to Shelter House
Therapy Art Therapy Technique (See Link Below).

SeeourExciting
Selectionof
eBooks:
AwardWinning:

Doll House Therapy

Creative
Counseling101
eBook

Traveling Therapist

OurBestSeller!

LearnMore
AboutIt
Creative Counselor

Sand Tray Therapy

See More Techniques
Positive Behavior
Share Your Ideas Here
PlayTherapy
Methods
What is Play Therapy?
Why Play Therapy?
Play Therapy 101
Play Therapy Activities
Play Therapy Worlds
ArtTherapy
Art Therapy 101
Art Therapy History
Interpret Art Therapy
Color Psychology 101
House/Tree/Water/Animal
Family Portrait
SandTray
Therapy
Levels of Sand Tray
S.T. Directions
Self-Healing Sand Tray
Build Sand Trays
School
Counseling
Character Education
Guidance Lessons
Bully Prevention
Bully Coping Skill
Stop Curse Words

The Kinetic Family Drawing Test was developed by

Burns & Kaufman. You can use a modified version of this
test with your clients and students. It is a very helpful
technique for a certified, or licensed, professional to
keep in their counseling tool box.
Basically, the Kinetic Family Drawing Technique will help
you reveal answers of the following:

StepByStepTherapy:

- The therapist will see how the client sees themselves

in the family unit.

Learn how to be a more Creative

Therapist with the Book that
started it all!

- Interaction between the child and family members

can be measured.

- Graduate School Counseling book

used by hundreds of graduate
counseling students!

- The nuclear self in the client.

- If the client is an adult, the therapist can see the
sense of self from childhood.
- The therapist can see the hidden rules in the family
that are not easily seen from the outside looking in.

- Includes full color reproducible

worksheets with most activities.
- Winner of the Counselor Writer of
the Year Award, 2011, Georgia
Regional Award
DownloadYour Copy Today Only
$39.95:

- Internalized feelings from the child and other family

members.

SeeCreativeCounseling101
eBookInformationHere:

- Who is the most important person in the family, to the

least important in the family?

GettheSet
ofallfour

- Who is close in the family and who

http://www.creativecounseling101.com/kineticfamilydrawingtestarttherapy.html

is not close in the

1/5

10/3/2015
Career Counseling Test
Sch. Counselor eBook

TheKineticFamilyDrawingTestinArtTherapy

- Who is close in the family and who is not close in the

family?

Meditation

Anincrediblecollectionof

Meditation Tools
Mandalas
Mandala 101
Mandala How To
Genograms
Genogram 101
Anger
Management
Anger Management 101
Affirmations
Affirmations 101
GroupTherapy
Positive Behavior Group
Grief&Loss
Therapy
Grief & Loss
Grief/Loss Activity
InnerChild
Inner Child
I.C. Therapy
LearnMore
About:
All Examples
Creative Scents
Self-Esteem Help
Sugar Therapy
Bibliotherapy
The Labyrinth
Behavior Supports
Brain Building Ideas
Stop Nightmares
Etiquette and Manners
Find Happiness Chart
Make the World Better
SiteInformation
About Dr. Stangline
Contact Me
Affiliate Disclosure
Disclaimer
Privacy Policy
Photo Gallery
AdvertiseFree
Home
Home Page
Creative Counseling?
HowToeBooks
Creative eBook
Play Therapy eBook
Sand Tray eBook

eBooksforonly
$98.95:
howtodotherapyeBooks!

There are five basic elements to the Kinetic Family

Drawing that need to be analyzed and interpreted.
Below you will find the five basic elements:

A$159.80Value,
YouSaveOver$60!

1. Placement within The Kinetic Family Drawing:

The Kinetic Family Drawing Placement Grid basically
analysis where family members are placed in the
drawing. Who is standing next to whom? Are they
closely drawn, or far away? Who was drawn first,
middle, last, and who was omitted in the drawing? Who
was added, yet erased, or moved in the drawing? Who is
the largest in the drawing and who is the smallest? Is
this true to the scale in real life of each person
represented?

Get your complete set of the

Creative Counseling 101.com
eBooks by Dr. Michelle Stangline
for only $98.95, that's only
$25.00 per eBook (Regular Price
is $39.95 for each eBook.).

2. Physical Characteristics

Your complete set includes:

Look at the physical characteristics of each person in

the Kinetic Family Drawing. Are body parts exaggerated
or omitted? Look at the clothes? Facial features?
Colors used?
3. Actions of the Figures
Basically in this part of the Kinetic Family Drawing the
therapist will analyze what each family member is doing
and with whom. Who is left out here? Who is included in
the action? Who is the leader and who is the follower?
4. Freudian Symbols
Look for these in the Kinetic Family drawing. They can
also be a projection for something going on that is
hidden.
I will have to ask you to go this website to look up the
Universality of Symbols from Freud due to the content
on sexual symbols.

- Creative Counseling 101

- Creative Group Counseling 101
- Creative Play Therapy 101
- Creative Sand Tray 101

For more information click the

link below:

SeeCompleteSetof
eBooksForSaleHere:

Invividual
eBooksForSale:
SandTrayTherapy
101eBook:
LearnhowtodoSand
TrayTherapyor
enhanceyourskills.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_%28Freudian_dream_analysis%29

5. The Style of the Kinetic Family Drawing (The Family

System as a whole.)
This is where you can see the internalized feelings of
the child, which are learned and adopted from the
parent.If the child has a positive self-image then they
learned it from the internalized feelings of the parent.
If negative feelings are present, then you can see it was
also learned from the parent.

Look for the obvious, what jumps out at you. Extended

http://www.creativecounseling101.com/kineticfamilydrawingtestarttherapy.html
arms can mean possible rejection. Also, spikey fingers

SandTrayTherapyeBookfor
SaleLink

Group 101 eBook

2/5

10/3/2015
LearnMore
AboutIt
Creative Counselor
Doll House Therapy
Traveling Therapist
Sand Tray Therapy
See More Techniques
Positive Behavior
Share Your Ideas Here
PlayTherapy
Methods
What is Play Therapy?
Why Play Therapy?
Play Therapy 101
Play Therapy Activities
Play Therapy Worlds
ArtTherapy
Art Therapy 101
Art Therapy History
Interpret Art Therapy
Color Psychology 101
House/Tree/Water/Animal
Family Portrait
SandTray
Therapy
Levels of Sand Tray
S.T. Directions
Self-Healing Sand Tray
Build Sand Trays
School
Counseling
Character Education
Guidance Lessons
Bully Prevention
Bully Coping Skill
Stop Curse Words
Career Counseling Test
Sch. Counselor eBook
Meditation
Meditation Tools
Mandalas

TheKineticFamilyDrawingTestinArtTherapy

arms can mean possible rejection. Also, spikey fingers

and dark lines could suggest anger. What is missing
from the drawing? Sometimes what is not added to the
drawing says more than what is in the drawing.
You will find that the family unit has a major impact on
the childs emotional growth, socialization, and
interpersonal relationship skills in the style of the
drawing. Basically, this is the childs, or adults, sense of
self learned in childhood.

If a child drew the entire family out hunting with guns I

would find this to be a regional dynamic and concept of
the families life. As a vegetarian and animal lover this is
hard for me to accept.
But, I have to move past my cultural perspective and
realize that this is how some of my families feed
themselves.
However, if you live in New York City this might be a
red flag if you see a drawing of a family with guns.
Always know the client, or students, background and
take the culture in which they live in perspective.
Remember, art therapy is a sample and a rough
indicator of the phenomenological world of the client,
or student. Several drawings of different art therapy
activities should be used.

Anger
Management
Anger Management 101
Affirmations
Affirmations 101
GroupTherapy
Positive Behavior Group
Grief&Loss
Therapy

PlayTherapyeBookForSaleLink

SmallGroupCounseling
eBookForSale:
Learnhowtodocreative
grouptherapyandenhance
yourskills.

I encourage therapist to think of art therapy as a tool

and a piece of the puzzle from the clients mind. It is
similar to sand tray therapy.
A therapist would not base a diagnosis, or assumption,
on only one clients sand tray. They would rely on several
sand trays, other therapy tools, and several sessions
with the client to see the entire perspective of the
client.

Mandala How To
Genogram 101

Learnhowtodoplay
therapyorenhanceyour
skills.

One aspect that is missing from the five basic elements

above is the multicultural aspect of the drawing. For
instance, in my region of Appalachia families teach their
children to hunt with guns.

Mandala 101

Genograms

PlayTherapy101
eBook

Materials for the Kinetic Drawing Test Technique:

- Several #2 Pencils - Several sheets of white
paper
- Eight or more different colored crayons, pencils, or
markers - Erasers
Directions for the Kinetic Drawing Test Technique:

CreativeGroupTherapyeBook
ForSaleLink

SchoolCounselor
GuidanceLesson&
SocialStorieseBook
forsale:
Getayear'sworthofschool
counselorguidancelessonswith
"CreativeWarm&Fuzzy
ClassroomGuidanceLessons
eBook".Introduceyour
studentstothe"Warm&Fuzzy
Way".Clickthelinkbelowfor
moreinformation:
Warm&FuzzySchoolCounselor
GuidanceLessonseBook

1. Go over the rules of the drawing: Do the best you

can, erase as much as you want, dont

http://www.creativecounseling101.com/kineticfamilydrawingtestarttherapy.html

draw stick people

3/5

10/3/2015
Grief & Loss
Grief/Loss Activity
InnerChild
Inner Child
I.C. Therapy
LearnMore
About:
All Examples
Creative Scents
Self-Esteem Help
Sugar Therapy
Bibliotherapy
The Labyrinth
Behavior Supports
Brain Building Ideas
Stop Nightmares
Etiquette and Manners
Find Happiness Chart
Make the World Better
SiteInformation
About Dr. Stangline
Contact Me
Affiliate Disclosure
Disclaimer
Privacy Policy
Photo Gallery
AdvertiseFree

TheKineticFamilyDrawingTestinArtTherapy

can, erase as much as you want, dont draw stick people

or cartoons, take as long as you need to for the drawing,
and this is not a test of drawing ability.
2. Turn the paper in the landscape (horizontal
orientation). Ask the client to, Draw everyone who is in
your family, including yourself, doing something.
Emphasize that everyone in the drawing need to be
doing something. I usually get asked if pets can be
drawn. I tell the client this its okay if they want to
draw a pet as long as they are doing something as well.
3. Once the drawing is complete ask the client if you
can keep it until the next session. Interpret the test
with the five basic elements of the Kinetic Drawing
Test above.
*Important Disclaimer regarding Kinetic Family
Drawing Test:
Exercise caution when using this test! This test should
only be conducted by licensed or certified mental
health professionals.
Use this as a piece of the puzzle when trying to help
your students, or clients. Remember that in some
forensic situations it is considered unethical or illegal
to use the Kinetic Drawing Test.
In the school setting it is advisable to obtain consent
from parents when utilizing this test. I would also
advise consent for all projective tests to be added to
the initial paperwork in private practice.
Always allow your client, or student, to translate what is
going on in the drawing. Ask questions about each
person and what they are doing.
Drawing Translation Above:
The above drawing is one that a 50 year old woman did
when her brother who is now an adult was comitted to a
mental institution.
It shows how her parents still want to protect him and
blame others for his behavior. She feels left out and is
walking away as the parents try to stop his childish
behavior by overprotecting him.
Note that the "brother" is still drawn as a young child
even though he is now an adult. He is wearing orange
(hyperactivity, prison color, out of control coloring).
Everyone else is wearing blue due to the saddness of

the situation. The mother wears a

http://www.creativecounseling101.com/kineticfamilydrawingtestarttherapy.html

pink shirt for hope.

4/5

10/3/2015

TheKineticFamilyDrawingTestinArtTherapy

the situation. The mother wears a pink shirt for hope.

The "daughter" walking away wears green because she
knows he is very ill and her family is not accepting his
diagnosis.

ShelterHouseTherapyTechnique
SeeMoreArtTherapyTechniquesHere
SeeMoreCreativeCounselingIdeasHere
Sharethispage:
What'sThis?

Facebook

Twitter

Enjoythispage?Pleasepayitforward.Here'show...

Copyright 2015
Creative Counseling 101.com
All Rights Reserved

http://www.creativecounseling101.com/kineticfamilydrawingtestarttherapy.html

5/5