An introductory note on the childrens apperception test cat. The thematic apperception test, the children s apperception test, and the senior apperception technique in clinical use by bellak, leopold, 1916. The theory is that a child s responses to a series of drawings. The cat is intended to measure the personality traits, attitudes, and psychodynamic processes evident in prepubertal children. Murray for children ten years old and older as well as adults, uses a standard series of 31 picture cards in assessing perception of. The use of the childrens apperception test and thematic. The childrens apperception test cat is a useful tool that helps describes aspects of emotional disturbance in children. The test, in general, includes a series of 10 quasiambiguous pictures to which the child is asked to create a story.
The adoption story cards aims to be a flexible method for use in therapy, without rules pertaining to administration and scoring as required by a test. Initial data article pdf available in psychological reports 963 pt 1. Some indexes and variables of the childrens apperception test evaluation form. Article information, pdf download for the childrens apperception test. Chapter 3 current thematic apperception tests for child and. Social learning nimpact that observing other people has on our attitudes and behaviour. Thematic apperception test 3 the thematic apperception test tat is a visually instructional narrative method where the participant is shown a series of pictures that have a vague resemblance to realworld objects, and is then asked to narrate a story linking all the images and using them as input to the. Childrens apperception test manual pdf the thematic apperception test tat. International journal of psychological and brain sciences.
Description the cat, developed by psychiatrist and psychologist leopold bellak and sonya sorel bellak and first published in 1949, is based on the picturestory test called the thematic apperception test tat. The childrens apperception test, often abbreviated as cat, is an individually administered projective personality test appropriate for children. Psychodynamic aspects in childrens apperception test science. Pdf some indexes and variables of the childrens apperception test evaluation form were used to evaluate childrens thematic apperception stories to. The field of projective techniques has been a lively and a. The projective story telling cards was designed to facilitate an interview with the child and the manual suggests that the practitioner poses a series of question with each. Some indexes and variables of the children s apperception test evaluation form were used to evaluate children s thematic apperception stories to bellaks test. The children s apperception test, often abbreviated as cat, is an individually administered projective personality test appropriate for children aged three to 10 years. This test employs an original projective technique for presenting children with situations of concern.
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