OVERVIEW OF DEPRESSION SYMPTOMS IN ADOLESCENTS (DRAWING ANALYSIS BASED ON WADESON’S ART THERAPY STUDIES)
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Adolescence is a crucial period for the physical and psychological development of an individual. Sometimes depressed adolescents may have difficulty expressing their emotions and feeling in words or verbally. Depressed adolescents also need to release painful emotions for themselves in order to feel relief or freedom. One of the media for depressed adolescents to express their emotions is through painting or drawing. The purpose of this study was to see how is the overview of adolescents’ depressive symptoms based on drawing analysis. Wadeson’s art therapy studies were used as the guidelines to analyzed the drawings with formal and content analysis technique. This study used a qualitative approach with a total of 11 participants who attended drawing sessions that were held at Universitas Tarumanagara. Beck Depression Inventory II was used to select participants with moderate and severe depression. The results of the study showed that depressive symptoms in adolescents’ drawings were seen using strong pressure, disorganized, organic shapes and human figure, dominated with blue and green color also neutral colors, repetitive and thick lines, focal point on the objects, less detail, emptiness and sadness contents, negative affect, and good effort on drawing.
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