Affect regulation in children with ADHD: A Rorschach investigation.

Title: Affect regulation in children with ADHD: A Rorschach investigation.
Identifier: AAI3278444
identifier: 3278444
Creator: Harris, Benjamin H.
Contributor: Adviser: Steven B. Tuber
Date: 2007
Language: English
Publisher: City University of New York.
Subject: Psychology, Clinical
Abstract: The study assesses the nature of affect regulation in children with ADHD symptomatology using the Rorschach (RIM). Because these children have profound difficulty regulating affect, it was hypothesized that this difficulty would be reflected on RIM variables sensitive to such vulnerabilities; namely movement and color variables and ratios. Additionally, it was predicted that the presence of chromaticity on the RIM plates would play a role in this dysregulation. Children with greater ADHD symptoms showed more problematic performances on both chromatic and achromatic RIM plates, but in different manners. The RIM protocol and psychotherapy of a 7 year-old boy with severe ADHD symptomatology was then studied. He displayed a constricted record on achromatic cards and a chaotic record on chromatic cards. This pattern was replicated over the course of his subsequent dynamically-oriented treatment.
Type: dissertation
Source: PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
degree: Ph.D.