The Complete Guide to Children's Drawings

This useful book covers a wide range of subjects in children's lives as articulated in their drawings. It presents cases of children and adolescents coping with a variety of clinical issues and life challenges using interpretations of their drawings. Clinicians, educators and parents will find it helpful for understanding children's strengths and weaknesses and the reasons for their behaviors. It will also contribute to their ability to initiate fruitful emotional dialog, based on specific insights from the drawings. The knowledge in this book is based on extensive psychological studies and innovative independent research and is accompanied by more than 250 colorful, real-life examples of children's drawings. Based on her clinical experience, Wimmer offers more than 100 effective coping tools and solutions inspired by these drawings, which may be used to enhance children's self-confidence and family relationships.