Understanding children through their drawings

Concerned parents and professionals often contact us with various issues, asking for example: "My child draws a figure without arms. Does it mean that he is distressed?" Or "If a child uses black excessively in his drawing, does it mean that he is depressed?"

These common misconceptions are only part of a long list of elements in children's drawings that are incorrectly interpreted.

Course purpose

This user-friendly, video based course includes 6 units of study, which show you how to use children's drawings to understand their inner self and help them achieve personal growth, insight, and transformation.

Course content

The Basic Course includes dozens of various color drawings that are the basis for academic explanations, which are meant to give you a new tool for understanding children by clarifying the meanings of elements in their drawings.

In this course you will learn:

• The basic principles of interpreting house, tree and person drawings
• How to understand a child's personality by observing the drawing's colors
• When drawings of combat scenes or monsters really indicate distress

• Why girls prefer to draw hearts and what it means when boys do it
• How to assess family dynamics and relationship quality
• About a case of a child whose mother has cancer

• How physical abuse is illustrated in children's drawings
• When genitalia drawings are considered normal and do not mean that the child has been exposed to sexual abuse
• The characteristics of children's drawings following divorce

• Challenges faced by perfectionist children
• About first-grade readiness
• The uniqueness of twins drawings
• How drawings reflect children's reaction to the birth of a new sibling

Course advantages

The discussion of these issues offers useful insights based on case studies from Roshida experts' years of practice.

Exploring how children's drawings analysis works in the real world will offer you a springboard for better communication with them and change in their lives.

This course will give you the initial guidelines for decoding children's drawings and is an excellent gateway to continue your extensive study of this field.

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Course Delivery

This course is delivered 100% online. Upon enrolment you will have immediate access to this course for 4 months.