Family pictures are one of the most important first steps in which children reflect their interpersonal relationships. Since understanding family members is important in the therapeutic process when working with children, drawing their pictures is among the commonly used techniques in working with children. It is among the techniques used as the most important part of the overall evaluation. It seems that family drawings, which are frequently used as the most important part of the general evaluation, reflect only how children perceive themselves and the systems and boundaries in the family.
While drawing family, children unconsciously express the features that symbolize their feelings and behaviors. The child reflects how he interprets and perceives himself within the family. For example, a child who feels rejected may draw himself in a separate place from the group in the picture. The child who creates separation between himself and his family isolates himself from the family. The parent that the child feels close to and values is drawn larger than that.
The child constantly interacts with the people around him and his parents during the socialization process. Their relationships and thoughts, the results of these interactions are reflected in the child's picture. The use of family pictures to evaluate children in children's drawings has been around since the 1930s.
When evaluating the family pictures reflected by children, the order of the figures in the pictures, the size of the people, their positioning on the page, body proportions, who is next to or away from whom, who is looking towards whom. Drawing features such as are evaluated.
The order in which family members are drawn in children's drawings is very important. It shows us how the child perceives the interactions within the family, the closest relationship objects, and how the child sees himself within the family. The person drawn first on the left side of the page may be the person he values and finds close to him, but it may also be the person with whom he has a conflict. If the vertically drawn human figures are on the left of the page, there may be a dependent structure.
In the paintings of Turkish children, the mother figure is usually on the left and the father is on the right. The reason for this is that the father is the person who opens the house to the outside. We can. According to Machover, placing human figures on the left side of the picture shows a self-centered personality, while those drawn on the right side of the page seem to be related to setting goals for oneself in relation to the future. If the child draws himself on the right side, he has a desire to progress, a desire to individualize, and is open to development.
Children draw what they think, not what they see. Children draw prominently the person they find strong and identify with in the family. Some children draw themselves larger because their individuality is not supported by their parents. Family members drawn too small may be people that the child does not care about or whose presence makes him uncomfortable. The people who are not in the drawings are usually siblings, with whom the child has conflicts and has problems getting close to each other.
If family members are drawn close to each other and in physical contact, it indicates that the family members are in a close relationship and sharing. It can be thought that there is conflict between people who are drawn far and apart from each other and unity cannot be achieved. People drawn away from their families should be carefully considered in which direction they are on the page and which side they are looking at. There is often a connection between the people the child draws while looking at the left side of the page. While looking at the right side of the page, it is stated that the people he draws need to get away from the family and gain individuality. These types of drawings are often encountered during adolescence.
Children see their own mothers, fathers, relatives and siblings through their own special lenses, they can reflect their personal perceptions by drawing important individuals in their lives and advance their thoughts and beliefs about them. They draw pictures of themselves and their family members. It's an easy way to reflect on children's interpersonal perspectives. It seems that appropriate use and careful examination of child and family pictures can help understand children's family lives and their feelings in the areas of social support and attachment.
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