Front cover; Contents; List of Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction; Section I. Draw a Story: Screening for Depression and Aggression; Chapter 2. Background; Chapter 3. Reliability, Validity, and Depression; Chapter 4. Aggression and Depression; Chapter 5. Using Draw a Story with Clinical and Nonclinical Populations; Section II. The Silver Drawing Test: Drawing What You Predict, What You See, and What You Imagine; Chapter 6. Why and How the Silver Drawing Test Was Developed and Field Tested; Chapter 7. Administering and Scoring the Silver Drawing Test
Summary
Art can be a means of communication. It can bypass language and impairment and become a means of communicating thoughts or feelings difficult to express with words. Offering tools to assess cognitive skills that often escape detection on verbal tests of intelligence, this book helps in identifying those at risk for violent behavior or depression
