Family drawing test in patients with speaking problems

Abstract

Basis: In order to know the origin of the stammering, we can use proyective tests, that allow the children to express their emotions, conflicts and stress. It couldn?t be possible to express their problems verbally, because, the children frequently, use as a defence mechanism, the negation of a reality that is painful. Methods: In this paper we present a research that has been done in the Logopeadic Department of the Medicine Faculty of Valladolid (Spain), with 32 patients (22 males and 10 females) with age between 7 and 10 years old, diagnosed of stammering, that have realised, among another test, the drawing family test. We have studied the preference-identification, valuation-devaluation. Results: The person first drawed, the most important, is the father in the 41.6% of the cases, followed by the mother in the 22.20%. The identification is in the most of the cases of desire (47.22%) followed by the reality one (38.88%). Conclusion: Our results confirm the idea that the strong pressure that aggressiveness exert on a great number of stammered patients.