Concurrent Validity of the House-Tree-Person and Kinetic-Family -Drawings as Depression Assessment Tools in the Non-Clinical Korean American Adolescent
Graduation Date
Spring 1999
Document Type
Master's Thesis
Document Form
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Marriage and Family Therapy
Degree Granting Institution
Notre Dame de Namur University
Program Name
Art Therapy
Dean
Elaine L. Cohen, EdD
First Reader
Richard Carolan, EdD, ATR-BC
Second Reader
Arnell Etherington, PhD, MFT, ATR-BC
Abstract
This study examined the concurrent validity of House-Tree-Person (H-T-P) drawings and Kinetic-Family-Drawings (K-F-D) as measures of depression with Korean American adolescents whose parents are first generation immigrants. Thirty-five Korean American adolescents (30 U.S.-born, 5 Korean-born) were requested to make H-T-P drawings and K-F-D drawings and to complete psychological measures which included the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI)-II and the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (TSCS):2. The K-F-D drawings were scored using the Family Drawing Depression Scale (Wright & McIntyre, 1982) and the H-T-P drawings were scored using a qualitative global 4 points Likert scale rating form. Results indicated that neither the H-T-P nor the K-F-D ratings of depression indicators were strongly correlated to the BDI-II measure of depression.