History of the Kinetic Family Drawing
The Kinetic Family Drawing (KFD) was developed by Burns and Kaufman in 19!" #hildren are are as$ed to draw their family doing something rather than given given the general instruction to %ust draw their family& the di'erence of as$ing a child to include the family acting or doing something was a huge h uge development to this assessment tool" This tool is supposed to help the therapist understand what attitudes the child has toward his or her family and also see what the family dynamics are li$e in general"
Reliability and Validity Factors
t is dicult to determine the reliability and validity of the KFD because of its sub%ectivity& di'erent therapists can interpret a drawing in di'erent ways based on the *uestions they as$ and how they see the drawings speci+cally" speci+cally" ,ccording ,ccording to -erson (.!!/)0 the testretest testretest reliability reliability of the KFD is 2good2 (pg (pg 3.4)" t is hard to measure the validity because of the inconsistent use of various scoring systems0 but the KFD has been popularly used abused and maltreated children and children with serious medical illnesses"
Where to Obtain and Cost
The Kinetic Drawing 5ystem for Family Family and 5chool is available available at this site6 7http688www"wpspublish"com8stor 7http688www"wpspublish"com8store8p8.43/8$ineticdrawingsystemfor e8p8.43/8$ineticdrawingsystemforfamilyand familyand school" The entire $it0 which which includes a manual and .: scoring scoring boo$lets0 costs ;9."!!" The contents can be bough individually individually for ;:/"!! ;:/"!! and ;/3":!0 respectively"
Administration and Interpretation
This test can be administered administered by any therapist or counselor counselor and ta$es appro
therapist will also ta$e the scoring boo$let and chec$ the drawing for the presence or absence of speci+c characteristics0 and 2score2 the drawing" There are hypotheses in the manual with case e
Article
This article aimed to study the how sibling relationships can be seen in the results of $inetic family drawings" n the study0 :1 children were administered the $inetic family drawing test individually" The results showed that the drawings were re=ective of sibling relationships siblings who are distant in real life were shown in the drawing further apart from each other" n addition to prohen siblings are drawn far away from the family0 there may be some issues in their relationships"
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5ample Kinetic Family Drawing
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