Healthy Human Systems

Assessment is a collaborative process between the therapist and the client. The therapist whose manner and methods sets the client at ease will successfully obtain
crucial data with both comfort and efficiency. The Kvebæk Sculpture Tool and Technique fits the bill by assisting the client to “get to the heart of the matter” in a natural, story-sharing process. The data obtained points the way to the goal the client is longing for, and provides important information to help chart the way toward the desired outcome.

The Kvebæk instrument is a projective technique. Dr. Wayne J. Ehrisman, an experienced psychologist and clinical professor, wrote the following, “As a psychologist with interests in personality assessment, I was impressed by the potential of the Kvebaek for use as a projective technique, with particular applications for psychodynamic and family systems models of assessment and treatment.” He added, “…particularly useful for young children, who … communicate through non-verbal symbolic play materials … equally useful for adults as a projective technique that goes beyond the usual verbal narrative form of communicating internalized family dynamics.”

Below are clinical examples of a six-year old child’s depictions of “how it is” and “how I want it…”