Guided Drawing: Facilitating Trauma Narratives for Young Children

Maureen Neuville · Benjamin Pfiffner

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Young children who have experienced trauma need developmentally appropriate techniques when being counseled. Their verbal skills might not allow them to accurately describe their experience, even if they are willing to share. Counselors might ask children to draw what happened, but young children’s motor skills do not match their representational abilities. Guided Drawing’s innovative technique allows counselors and their young clients to co-construct simple drawings that depict the children’s subjective experiences and to begin a narrative of their traumas. That drawing becomes the basis for ongoing therapeutic assessment and intervention. This article presents the Guided Drawing process, application, and potential ethical considerations.

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