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Projective Drawings of Individuals Grieving the Loss of a Pet

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Projective Drawings of Individuals Grieving the Loss of a Pet

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Projective Drawings of Individuals Grieving the Loss of a Pet

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Many children with unacknowledged loss experience rage but are unaware that the rage is a result of their unmourned losses. One twelve-year-old child drew a "safe home" in the room.

This child, who was referred by his school for aggressive behavior at school, had witnessed domestic violence but
The Magic Key opened the door for him to talk in more depth about what he had witnessed, but even more importantly it enabled him to express his rage within the therapeutic setting and to realize for the first time that beneath the
rage was tremendous sorrow that he did not live in a "safe home."

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The Magic Key (Crenshaw, 2004;
Crenshaw and Mordock, 2005), was developed to evoke themes of loss, longing, and missing in the lives of children.

The value of this projective drawing is that it sometimes brings into focus for both the child and therapist the losses that the child had not previously acknowledged. Sometimes this is because the nature
of the loss is too painful to acknowledge and in other cases either the cognitive awareness or the affect associated with the loss has been dissociated
(Hardy and Laszloff)r, 2005).

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When thinking of projection assessments it is common for many to picture the Rorschach Ink Blots.

Other projective assessments include the “House-Tree-Person” (HTP or H-T-P) developed by psychologist John. N Buck n the 1940s.

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In the 1800s, drawings became significant to psychoanalysis in order to reveal the unconscious mind (Gil,
1994).

In 1905, Freud reported on drawings of Little Hans as a means to “surface
unconscious material through images”(Malchiodi, 2003, p. 42).

Naumburg (1966) became popular for using
spontaneous drawings within psychoanalysis. Since that time, the use of creative techniques has seen an increase in
the use of art, visualization, and
metaphorical imagery in children’s counseling (Allan, 1988).

Projective drawing tests emerged to study
the perceptions, attitudes, and personality
of children (Malchiodi, 2003).

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Through projective drawing, children can reveal hidden anxieties, fears or shame that

they may be hesitant to verbalize. One of the benefits of projective assessment is that the

therapist can gain tremendous insight into children without a lot of time or conversation

(Jothimani, Kumar, & Deepak, 2016).

Creative strategies were found to help
grieving adolescents cope with the loss of a loved one and
reduce mental health disorders that can stem from grief due to the death of a loved one (Edgar-Bailey & Kress, 2010; Ihrmarket al., 2012; Lander & Graham-Pole, 2009; Muselman & Wiggins, 2012; Wiggins, 2011)

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Instructions:

Read the following to the client: "Imagine that you have been given a magic key that opens one room in a huge castle. There are four floors in the castle and since the castle is huge there are many rooms on each floor, but your magic key only opens one of the many, many rooms in the castle. Pretend you go from room to room, and from floor to floor, trying your magic key in each door until you finally come to the door that your key opens. You turn the key and the lock opens. Because you have been given a magic key that only opens this door, what you see is the one thing that money can't buy that you always thought would make you happy. Pretend that you are looking into the room. What is it that you see? What is that one thing that has been missing that you think would make you happy? When you have a clear picture, please draw it as best you can."