This study aims, to make a contributions exclusively casuistic, at assess the ability of the Design of the Family to identify the graphic signs of sexual abuse, in the evaluation of child sexual abuse. Two groups, composed by 8 minors with ascertained (by the Italian Magistrature) sexual abuse, and 8 minors belonging to the control group, respectively, were compared. The drawings were analysed through an ad hoc grid composed by 17 graphic indicators. Results don't show that two groups are very different in all examined variables. To date, it seems neither possible nor methodologically appropriate to use this tool in the forensic field as "proof" of any abuse suffered by the child.

Utilità e limiti del Disegno della Famiglia nella valutazione dei casi di child sexual abuse, in ambito peritale; uno studio casistico

GRATTAGLIANO, IGNAZIO
2013-01-01

Abstract

This study aims, to make a contributions exclusively casuistic, at assess the ability of the Design of the Family to identify the graphic signs of sexual abuse, in the evaluation of child sexual abuse. Two groups, composed by 8 minors with ascertained (by the Italian Magistrature) sexual abuse, and 8 minors belonging to the control group, respectively, were compared. The drawings were analysed through an ad hoc grid composed by 17 graphic indicators. Results don't show that two groups are very different in all examined variables. To date, it seems neither possible nor methodologically appropriate to use this tool in the forensic field as "proof" of any abuse suffered by the child.
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