12 Must Know Facts About Children's Drawings by Michal Wimmer - HTML preview

The Complete Guide to Children's Drawings

This practical book elaborates on a broad range of issues in children’s lives, as articulated in their drawings. Clinicians, educators and parents will find it helpful for evaluating children’s strengths and weaknesses, as well as understanding the reasons for their behaviors. 

The book is accompanied by a wide collection of colorful drawings and explanations, in order to clearly illustrate the material learned.

Variety of issues

The book presents cases of children and adolescents who have experienced a variety of problems and life events, such as divorce, ADHD, adoption, eating disorders, social problems, fears, power struggles in the family and at school, learning disabilities, the birth of a little brother or sister, lies, disease in the family, relocations, and temper tantrums. 

Beyond this list and additional parenthood problems, the book also discusses how to identify talents in children’s drawings, which will enable you to choose the optimal afternoon activity for your child, most appropriate for his abilities

and personality traits.

Practical tools

In addition to hundreds of examples of children’s drawings and explanations, the book offers many effective tools for coping with children’s difficulties, based on extensive clinical experience. These tools will help you help your child cope with his difficulties, enhance his self-confidence and improve his family relations.

In this book you will find answers to important questions such as: 

 How to identify artistic talent in areas such as music, painting or drama?

 Why do children use mainly black, and what do colors mean in drawings?

 Why do children draw human figures without arms? 

 Do monster drawings indicate fears?

 What happens to a child at kindergarten or school? Is he happy there?

 What are some of the indicators of distress in children’s drawings and handwritings?

 How can you better understand the way a child will cope with significant changes in the family, such as the birth of a new sibling or divorce?

 What is the truth behind some of the common myths associated with children’s drawings? 

Train yourself

At the end of the book you’ll find exercises and detailed answers that will give you a chance to experience drawing analysis firsthand, using real -life original Drawings.

Delivery

This book is available on Amazon.com

Paperback: 272 pages

List Price: $12.95