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Diagnostic Drawing Series

Diagnostic Drawing Series proper noun: a standardized art therapy assessment in which the artist/patient is asked to draw three pictures.

Proper noun

Diagnostic Drawing Series

  1. A standardized art therapy assessment in which the artist/patient is asked to draw three pictures.
  2. An international collaborative project on how people tend to draw.

Origin of Diagnostic Drawing Series

The Diagnostic Drawing Series (DDS) was developed in 1982 by art therapists (Mills, Cohen, & Meneses, 1993).

Questions about Diagnostic Drawing Series

What does Diagnostic Drawing Series mean?
Diagnostic Drawing Series means a standardized art therapy assessment in which the artist/patient is asked to draw three pictures.
What part of speech is Diagnostic Drawing Series?
Diagnostic Drawing Series is a proper noun.

Words near Diagnostic Drawing Series in the dictionary

  1. diagnosis mill
  2. diagnosis mills
  3. diagnosises
  4. diagnosogenic
  5. diagnostic
  6. Diagnostic Drawing Series
  7. diagnostic overshadowing
  8. diagnostical
  9. diagnostically
  10. diagnosticate
  11. diagnosticated

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