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Draw-a-Person Test
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Draw-a-Person (DAP) Test
Etymology: AS, dragan + L, personalis + testum, crucible
a test developed by Karen Machover
Etymology: American psychologist, b. 1902
based on the interpretation of drawings of human figures of both sexes. Interpretation depends on the subject's verbalizations, self-image, anxiety, and sexual conflicts and other factors. Also called Machover Draw-a-Person Test.

Draw-a-Person Test
A projective test used to assess personality, in which the subject first draws a person of one sex, then the other, which reflect the person's feelings and perception of body images


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The tools she reviews includes the human figure drawing test, kinetic family and school drawings, the Diagnostic Drawing Series, static and kinetic house-tree-person tests, family-centered circle drawings, the Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion, magazine photo collages, belief and dream assessments, the Formal Elements Art Therapy Scale, and the Levick Emotional and Cognitive Art Therapy Assessment.
 
 
 
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