370 Kinetic Family Drawings by Children with Perceptual-motor Delays Larry M. Raskin, PhD, and Georgia Pitcher-Baker, PhD Kinetic Family Drawings (KFDs)from 50 example, the studies of Goodenough (1926) kindergarten and first-grade children with Machover (1949), Harris (1963), and Hammer perceptual-motor delays are compared with (1955)are well known those done by 50 children of the same age In general, there are two approaches to without such delays. Each child was asked to interpreting drawings by children. Some make a drawing of his family, including himself, clinicians interpret them as projections of the with everyone doing something. All drawings unconscious aspect of the childs personality were scored on criteria developed by Burns and structure, an expression of inner needs, feelings, Kaufman and by Koppitz: isolation-rejection iflicts, and motivations. Others regard them body concerns, and sibling rivalry. The KFDs of as measures of mental maturity. Some use the children with delayed development showed drawings both ways. For example, Koppitz more of these indicators than did the control(1968)stated that HF Ds reflect the child's group's KFDs. A further analysis of the results current level of mental development as well as ests that isolation rejection and body inter al relationships attitudes, and concerns differentiate the children who show cerns of a given moment. In answering Rivalry is not a significant discriminator, KFDs technique, she supported her clinical interpreta- diagnosis and treatment of the problems of Kaufman(1970, 1972)expanded the original of the hfd by asking the child to dra ng(KFD) technique the that kinetic d is a projective test developed by Burns and more information about the child and more aid Kaufman(1970, 1972)for use by psychiatrists in understanding the troubled child than d and clinical psychologists. To date, there is drawings showing no action scant literature concerning its use. On the other The present study incorporates the ideas of hand, its forerunners, the Human Figure Koppitz and her forerunners with those of Drawing(HFD)technique and the House - Tree- Burns and Kaufman. Previously clinical obser Person(H-T-P) test, have attracted considerable vations suggested that children with learning attention from clinicians and researchers. For problems often manifest delayed perceptual Volume 10, Number 6, June/july, 1977