1. Clinical Assessment of the child: Does drawing help children to talk about their presenting problems? Research for Master of Health Science: Endorsed in mental health. Authors; Woolford J., Patterson. T., and Hayne. H. .

2. June ‘Junie’ Woolford Child and Family Therapist CAFMHS Dunedin

3. 1.Adverse effects on development 2.Enduring effects if not addressed. Homotypic/hetrotypic 4.Societal impact Loss of human capitol (WHO, 2009) 3.Youth issues- social disengagement A potential sequence of child psychopathology.

10. Are children competent enough to self report? Cognition Verbal communication Socio emotional

25. Children were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions Tell only Draw and tell Consent sought from children and their caregivers.

28. Interview protocol for draw and tell conditions. 1. Open ended free recall , “ Can you draw and tell (or tell) everything you can about .e.g. Sadness?” 2. Direct Prompts. “ You said you don’t go to club anymore, can you draw and tell me more about that?” 3. Encouragers, reflections and minimal responses. “ Wow” , “That sounds tricky” or paraphrases. 4. Are there any other problems that you could draw / tell me about? 5. Repeat question protocol until no further information supplied.

34. Does drawing help children to talk about their presenting problems?

35. Figure 1 . Mean number of clauses (with SE bars) for each experimental condition.

36. Did the interviewer behavior differ between the draw and tell conditions?

37. Interviewer behaviour.

38. The subjective views of children in a clinical setting. Did children say they would prefer to draw?

41. We also wanted to know… Did children perceive that drawing made the task of reporting easier?

44. Discussion.

48. Interviewer behaviour.

52. Discussion