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The Author and Artist, Rawley Silver
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Rawley Silver began writing about therapeutic art experiences in 1962 when she worked with children who had hearing-impairments, then with stroke patients and others who had learning disabilities or emotional disturbances. She has conducted research projects supported by grants from the U.S.Office of Education, the National Institute of Education, and the New York State Department of Education; taught art therapy in the Graduate School of the College of New Rochelle from 1974 to 1980; and presented at more than 70 conferences and universities.
Her most recent book, The Silver Drawing Test and Draw A Story, updates previous editions of these art assessments with recent findings, and was published in June 2007 by Routledge, N.Y. and Taylor & Francis, UK. Test materials are provided in the book. Additional packets are available from rawled@ aol.com.
Recipient of the annual award for research from the American Art Therapy Association in 1976, 1980, 1992, and 1996, she was elected to Honorary Life Membership in the Association in 1983, and the Florida Art Therapy Association in 1984.
She has reported the findings of her studies in more than 70 journal articles, books, and other publications. Five of her books, now in print, are discussed on the following pages. Some journal editors have authorized the downloading of selected articles at no charge. Click here for list. The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) provides digital access to seven of her publications through the ERIC database (www.eric.ed.gov).
Also a painter, Silver's work has been shown in invitational and juried group shows; her 18th one-person exhibition was shown in Juanuary, 2008. She has been listed in Who’s Who in American Art since 1983,and is included in the archives of the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C.
Silver's assessments use stimulus drawings to bypass langauge disorders in assessing cognitive skills, and to provide access to emotions and attitudes toward self and others. The Draw A Story asessment helps teachers and mental health professionals identify students at risk for violent behavior and/or masked depression. The Silver Drawing Test of Cognition and Emotion includes three tasks: Predictive Drawing, Drawing from Observation, and Drawing from Imagination.
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Non-fiction
The Silver Drawing Test and Draw A Story, Assessing Depression, Aggression,and Cognitive Skills
“Silver’s new book is an indispensable resource for all art therapists, as well anyone who works with at-risk youth. This is an exceptional reworking of her earlier work and includes new research, a wealth of applications in a range of settings, and a dynamic synthesis of Silver’s lifework.”
- Donna Kaiser, Ph.D., ATR-BC, LPC, LMFT, Director of the Graduate Art Therapy Program at Albertus Magnus College
“This new book, which constitutes a compilation of major work by this brilliant author, is stunning in its scope. These assessment methods and research studies offer a unique and balanced blend of art and science that affords an understanding of both individual and universal elements of human emotion and cognition.”
- Annette Shore, MA, ATR-BC, NCC, LPC, Marylhurst University, Graduate Program in Art Therapy Counseling
“This book is an extraordinary accomplishment! Rawley Silver’s tools for identifying, assessing, and supporting children and adolescents at risk for violent behavior are a model for combining quantitative findings with qualitative analysis. The sum total translates into assessments that will prove useful to classroom teachers, art therapists, psychologists, and other clinicians. I highly recommend this volume.”
- Amy Ione, Director of the Diatrope Institute
“This is an exceptionally rich and useful book that is on the cutting edge of art therapy quantitative and qualitative research. In this complete and comprehensive book, Silver shares the best of her work thus far. I strongly recommend it be added to every professional library.”
- Patricia St. John, EdD, ATR-BC, LCAT, immediate past-chair of the AATA Research Committee and Program Coordinator for the graduate art therapy programs at the College of New Rochelle
Aggression and Depression Assessed Through Art; Using Draw-A-Story to Identify children and Adolescents at Risk
Another major contribution to the art therapy and counseling literature by one of the most highly esteemed writers and researchers in the field."
Christine Turner, LPC, NCC, ATR-BC, ACS, Chairperson, Department of Art Therapy, Marylhurst University.
Non-Fiction
Art as Language, Access to Thoughts and Feelings through Stimulus Drawings
“studies based on the ‘premise that art can be a language parallel to the written word’”
-NAEA News, A Publication of the National Art Education Association.
Non-fiction
Developing Cognitive and Creative Skills Through Art, Programs for children with communication disorders or learning disabilities
“Today, as a decade ago, Silver’s book represents a landmark in the development of art therapy” --ARTherapy, Journal of the American Art Therapy Association.
Nonfiction
Three Art Assessments
This new book now brings together in one comprehensive volume three of her award-winning art assessments previously available only separately. --main selection of Behavioral Science, early winter 2002
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