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.”
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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.”
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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. I highly recommend this volume.”
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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.
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.
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.
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
