- Knowledge:
Two pertinent pieces of knowledge that I learned from this article are although using drawing as an assessment tool is controversial it can help clinicians obtain and generate useful information to design appropriate treatment plans for addressing children’s concerns when they are utilized ethically within a battery of several assessments.
Drawing tools can also be used in supervision to go into depth on case studies or even bring out blockages that come about through supervision between supervisors and supervisees. Personal Thoughts
- What were you thinking as you read (2+ items)? What made sense to you (why)? What did not make sense to you (why not)? What did you decide? What new understanding did you come to?
When reading about using drawing as and assessment tool it still does not make sense to me how drawing would be used to determine intelligence. How is intelligence being defined when we use drawings as an indicator? I feel that drawing can enhance intelligence, but I don’t think that if a child is not a skillful drawer that would indicate they lack intelligence.
What did make sense to me is how using draws helped children be able to provide 100 simple sentences compared to children who only produced 50 simple sentences when they used the tell-only methods.
I concluded that children could go into more depth when they have a visual in front of them which can help draw out memories and this led to me seeing how drawing could be useful assessment tool when paired with other assessments.
- Additional sources of knowledge:
The first source of knowledge that I mentally drew from when thinking critically was Competency 4: Engage in Practice-Informed Research and Research-informed Practice. It was helpful because social workers must be able to Utilize multi-dimensional assessment to inform practice and the idea that drawing can be a tool to utilize for younger children in therapy setting to get a better understand on how they interrupt situation versus what they been told to think/view the situation to be.
Another source of knowledge that I mentally drew from when thinking critically was 5.02 Evaluation and Research as social workers should monitor and evaluate policies, the implementation of programs, and practice interventions.
- Skills:
Skills that I have that allows for successful assessment and is being open to new ideas and flexible to change. I think every day with new research coming about we need to be able to be opened mined.
Skills that could further develop to decrease assessment challenges would be to engage more in increasing my knowledge in research. Being more fluent in identifying how to know the assessment is evidence based is important as well critical thinking, I need to ask questions and not believe things because someone important says they are true.