Joint family drawing

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Although I tend to use art therapy more with individual clients, I have lately had more opportunities to use art in family therapy, leading me to think more about family-focused interventions. One of the art therapy interventions that I learned as a graduate student at Loyola Marymount University was verbal and nonverbal joint family drawings. In Family Art Psychotherapy, Helen Landgarten proposed using this method as a standard family evaluation in the first session. In her evaluation, she would assign the family three art tasks, framing it as a game. In the first task, the family is instructed to divide themselves into two teams (thus revealing the family alliances) and for each member to choose one color of marker to use throughout the evaluation. The teams are each asked to create one nonverbal drawing together, with no talking, writing notes, or signaling. In the second task, the entire family works together to create a nonverbal drawing. And for the third task, the entire family creates a drawing together with verbal communication allowed. The information provided in observing these three tasks, both in the interactions of the family members and in the resulting art, can be very valuable for the therapist. For more information on what to observe and questions to process with the family, see Family Art Psychotherapy. Verbal Family Drawing I often do not follow Landgarten’s three part evaluation, instead doing the two tasks of nonverbal and verbal joint family drawings...