Deborah Hage is the author of many books on attachment disorder. One of my favorites is Attaching in Adoption. She has a website http://www.deborahhage.com/ . If you click on articles on the left there are a whole string of interesting articles to read. One article is on sculpy art therapy. http://www.deborahhage.com/articles/sculpy.html You have your child make a figure out of clay. You tell them it can be any animal, farm, jungle, wild, tame and give no further instructions. Then the article gives guidance as to how to discuss the animal with them when it is finished. Then she gives examples of sculpys other children have made and tells what different features mean. The figures my boys made were right on and very revealing. Some I might not have wanted to know but it was revealing anyway! So get out that clay!
