As an art therapist you are certainly familiar with the significance of nonverbal symbolism involved in art and in drawings, in particular, as indicators of a patient's emotional status.

Indeed, art therapy with children involves decoding nonverbal information. This complex task is something that you, as an art therapist, are required to deal with on a daily basis. You observe a child's body language, play style and drawings in order to gain insight into his personality and difficulties, as well as talents and strengths.

Coping with this complexity

In such cases, children's drawings help us uncover another layer of the child's personality structure, which is often revealed to us indirectly. Our Online Learning Center was created to meet this need to explore the hidden, nonverbal signs that can guide you as an art therapist in analyzing children's drawings. We know that drawings, beyond their huge potential as a therapeutic tool, may clearly reflect a child's personality, difficulties and non-verbalized issues.

What does the learning center include?

Based on numerous studies, e.g. Mohr, Goodenough, Bender , as well as on practical models we developed in our practice, we created a series of online lessons and e-books, designed to provide you with practical tools and methods for analyzing children's drawings you encounter in your work as an art therapist.

Online lessons

The lessons are composed of a series of videos, which include unique and profound interpretations for dozens of drawings of many commonplace subjects, such as: human figures, houses, trees, and family members, as well as other, more idiosyncratic subjects such as spaceships, butterflies, creatures – anything they may be fond of imagining. These interpretations are supported by theoretical knowledge based on academic studies about children's drawings. Thus, our lessons provide you with the professional basis you require, as an art therapist, to accurately analyze children's drawings of any kind.

E-books

The e-books complement the lessons by focusing on a particular subject, such as  divorce, ADHD or family relationships. In the e-book you are presented with dozens of drawings related to various aspects of one of these issues, with every drawing accompanied by an interpretation. In addition to the drawings, we provide theoretical background on each aspect as well as practical, hands-on solutions to common difficulties every art therapist is faced with. We recommend you order the e-books after taking the lessons, to acquire a strong basis for understanding and implementing the learning material.

Expert training center

For those of you who have seen everything our website has to offer, we offer an advanced learning center, which includes additional articles and drawing examples to further refine your analysis skills.

What are the advantages?

Specialize in children's drawings

We want to upgrade your skills in analyzing children's drawings. This is our expertise and we are now ready to pass the knowledge and experience we have acquired over the years on to you, so that you will be able to enhance your therapeutic skills and take advantage of opportunities in the art therapy field that were not open for you until now.

Improve your therapeutic practice

Learning how to analyze children's drawings will enable you to help children faster and more accurately, as they pinpoint the problem and its solution. These children and their parents will benefit from more effective tools to cope with their difficulties, be they social, emotional or cognitive.

In that regard, you will be able to understand whether a child has a certain problem, such as low self-image, aggressiveness or family instability and then monitor his improvement through his subsequent drawings.
For example, if a child senses instability within his own family, he would often prefer to use a ruler while drawing. When you observe that he gradually avoids the use of ruler, you know that your therapy is in the right direction.   

You will be able to assess the impact of your therapeutic work and decide whether to proceed with your original therapeutic approach or try a new one.

Advanced Training Center

One of the greatest advantages this learning center offers you as an art therapist is a one-stop shop knowledge base. We have consolidated the information you require about children's drawings in one center, available for you online, anytime, anywhere.

We invite you to join the community of art therapists who are already learning with us