Implementation of a psycho-educational procedure to detect emotional difficulties in school children
Keywords:
Human Figure Test, Emotional Indicators, Children's Painting, Educational PsychologyAbstract
The aim of this study is to design a psychoeducational procedure in order to discover and prevent the emotional conflicts in relation to their educational, social and family context. This study was realized with children who were enrolled in first and second grade. The information was collected through projective human figure drawing test. For this study, it was sellecteda focus group conformed by 30 children between 6 and 8 years of old who studied in an institution of the Medellin city. The children conformed a nonrandom sample, with dissimilar school performance, behavior and sociability. Result show emotional indicators in children with low and high school performance. The emphasis for the analysis was put on the classification of active and passive indicators. The procedure was implemented, generating effective information in order to establish emotional warning indicators as much as for teachers as for educational psychologists. © Revista Colombiana de Ciencias Sociales.
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