Child Profile Manual [antikvár]

INTRODUCTIONThis manual is designed for the practicing graphologist. It is a guide for evaluating the child and in preparing a report for the parent, guardian or teacher. If you are working with a counselor (school or court), psychologist or psychiatrist, the "Child Profile Chart" attached to your report will be valuable to them. It will quickly identify the problem(s) and give them a scoring system to use in their own assessments. Equally important, your completed chart will reflect abilities and positive attitudes, the knowledge of which can help in the child's remediation or therapy.Objectivity in assessing the child's graphological indices will help you to evolve a clearer picture of him and to convey that information to the client. The parent may seek sympathy and reinforcement of her own feelings about her child. If so, we should redirect her to our findings and the problems which need resolving. Avoid digressions to guilt, blame and helplessness. They are non-productive. No matter how harried a parent may be by a difficult child, if that child is helped, the parent will be less harried.Be prepared to spend a good deal of time on each child you evaluate. Anticipate this in your work-time schedule and fee to the requesting parent or professional. There can be no economizing of your time and effort with a child's present and future.After almost three decades of experience with parents and the educational and court systems, I have found that it is better to use terms understandable by all than to be limited by the jargon shared only by graphologists. For this reason, this manual attempts to describe and explain as plainly as possible. The child may not be able to communicate. We should not suffer the same limitation.Most important throughout our examinations, we must be aware of our ultimate objective. Whatever frightening things we may discover about the child, that information is for the purpose of helping the caretakers to recognize and deal with it to help the child.- 3 -