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Formal Elements of Art Therapy Scale
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Core
How did it start?
...with a psychiatric population
Gantt had her clients in a psychiatric facility draw a person picking and apple and she began to see specific differences in the populations that she worked with. In the late 90's she began to study these drawing and found reliability in rating the drawings of those with depression, bipolar, schizophrenia, dementia, amnesic
The initial PPAT assessment
was based on a series of pilot studies to create a sound assessment protocol with a rating manual;
1996 study found significant differences between the characteristics of formal elements in patient art vs. non-patient art.
Currently
1. The PPAT and FEATS have all the advantages and disadvantageous of projective tests that we have read and studied about.
2. Other practitioners have explored the FEATS with other mental health issues most notably, ADHD.
3. Each scale has separate reliability/validity stats... The rotation and preservation scales appear to be weakest
Finally
The next step to continue research is to do a large systematic study of clinical and non-clinical populations.
Research
Gantt, L. (1998). A discussion of art therapy as a science. Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 15(1), 3-12.
Williams, K., Agell, G., Gantt, L., & Goodman, R. (1996). Art-based diagnosis: Fact or fantasy? American Journal of Art Therapy, 35, 9-31
Linda Gantt created a mannual, the FEATS (the Formal Elements Art Therapy scale to go with the PPAT, the Draw a Person Picking an Apple from a Tree Assessment. The FEATS has 14 elements, see handout. Each element is rated on a 0-5 scale.
Bucciarelli, Amy L., "A Normative Study of the PPAT Assessment on a Sample of College Students" (2007).Electronic Theses, Treatises and Dissertations.Paper 2888.
FEATS mannual
Gantt created a manual to allow for standardization.