Rysunek dziecka w diagnozie psychopedagogicznej

Presence of a drawing in human’s life can be observed as far back as in the prehistoric times. Drawing was the primary form of writing thoughts and recording reality. Also today a drawing is a universally available form of expression – simple and helpful in assessing development of child’s personality and in psychological or occupational therapy. Each shape, color and detail plays an important role because they serve as an expression of internal world of feelings, experiences, desires, dreams as well as anxiety and fear which because of some reasons child can have. That is why while analyzing the artistic work of children we are able to see its problems, worries, joys and concerns. The greatest deal of knowledge about child is delivered by the test of drawing of itself thanks to which we get insight into how a child perceives itself. On the other hand, the test of drawing of a family delivers information about relations within the family, the presence of parents and their attitude to a child. With skills of interpretation of artistic works of a child we can see more and we can assess the level of development of a child. We are also able to identify irregularities which could not be observed otherwise. Child’s artistic works also provide information how to stimulate the child’s activity or what should be changed in the educational work.