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Peer reviewedHauer, Allen L.; Armentrout, James A. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1978
Descriptors: Correlation, Emotional Disturbances, Intelligence Differences, Intelligence Tests
Peer reviewedOas, Peter – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1984
Designated 100 psychiatrically hospitalized and 114 nonhospitalized adolescents as impulsive or nonimpulsive and compared them to determine the validity of signs of impulsivity on the Draw-A-Person and Bender Gestalt tests. Signs of impulsivity and nonimpulsivity on these tests discriminated between impulsive and nonimpulsive adolescents with…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conceptual Tempo, Emotional Disturbances, Secondary Education
Hayden, Benjamin S.; And Others – Merrill Palmer Quart, 1970
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Diagnostic Tests, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children
Song, A.Y.; Song, R.H. – J Clin Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Emotional Disturbances, Mental Retardation, Psychiatry, Psychological Evaluation
Peer reviewedWatkins, Julia M.; Watkins, Dennis A. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1975
This study researched the Plenk scoring system more thoroughly to see whether it could be used with older children and whether it could differentiate normal from emotionally disturbed Ss. (Author)
Descriptors: Data Collection, Emotional Disturbances, Handicapped Children, Research Methodology
Peer reviewedBuckley, Pepper D. – Psychology in the Schools, 1978
The past 11 years of published research investigating the use of the Bender Gestalt Test with school-age children are reviewed. Seen as a psychometric instrument, scored according to standardized procedures, this recent work does not conclusively support use of the test for prediction of school achievement or emotional disturbance. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Children, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedHilgert, Larry D. – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1985
Bender Gestalt Test data from 60 severely emotionally handicapped and 60 normal children were computer digitized and scored traditionally. Reliability results from comparison of analysis techniques favored computer approach; criterion-related validity was unsuccessful for both scoring methods; and concurrent validity results indicated limited…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Computer Graphics, Elementary Secondary Education, Emotional Disturbances
Peer reviewedGordon, Michael – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
The diagnostic significance of central placement of the first Bender-Gestalt design was examined by comparing protocols of clinic-referred and nonreferred children matched for age and IQ. As predicted, central placement occurred with greater frequency in the clinic group, but its clinical utility is unclear. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Diagnostic Tests
Peer reviewedNinness, H. A. Chris; And Others – Child Study Journal, 1985
Elementary school children displaying high rates of classroom disruption--"acting-out"--were given the Bender Gestalt pre- and posttreatments. Treatments consisted of contingency management, while a control group received an eclectic procedure. All experimental students and half of the control group showed significant drops in rates of…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Contingency Management, Discipline Problems, Educational Strategies
Peer reviewedBreen, Michael J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Elementary school boys in a program for the emotionally disturbed were administered the Revised Beery and Bender-Gestalt. A significant correlation of .73 between age-equivalent scores was obtained. Although mean scores did not differ significantly from one another, scores were quite varied. The implications of such variability are discussed.…
Descriptors: Correlation, Elementary Education, Emotional Disturbances, Males
Koppitz, Elizabeth Munsterberg – 1972
Presented is a manual for scoring the Bender Gestalt Test and the Human Figure Drawing Test for screening and diagnostic uses with emotionally disturbed, brain damaged, or perceptually handicapped 5- to 11-year-old children. Given are suggestions for administering and scoring the Bender test which examines distortion of shape, rotation,…
Descriptors: Children, Emotional Disturbances, Exceptional Child Education, Freehand Drawing
Download full textCLEMENT, PAUL W.; MILNE, D.C.
THE PRESENT STUDY WAS DESIGNED TO DETERMINE WITHIN GROUP PLAY THERAPY--(1) THE COMBINATION OF EXPERIENCES WHICH PRODUCE THE GREATEST CHANGE IN BEHAVIORS AND THE EMOTIONAL STATE, AND (2) WHETHER TREATMENT INCLUDING TANGIBLE REWARDS PRODUCE MORE CHANGE THAN TREATMENT EXCLUDING THEM. THE 11 THIRD-GRADE BOYS REFERRED BY TEACHERS BECAUSE OF THEIR SHY,…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Anxiety, Behavior Change, Behavioral Science Research
