Multicultural Measurement of Haitian Children's House-Tree-Person Drawings

Afolayan, Abimbola G.; Tellock, Perrin; Hulslander, Thomas A.; O’Leary, Kevin J.; Moran, Kelsey; Conley, Molly M.; Sodowsky, Gargi Roysircar

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“…The scores were added to calculate a sum of scores for each house, tree, and person drawing. For the two phases (Afolayan, 2015; Roysircar et al, 2017), the authors were guided by Tharinger and Stark’s (1990) qualitative approach to develop criteria for scoring drawings for the assessment of children’s internalizing disorders.…”

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“…Similarly, Roysircar et al (2017) used HTP drawings by children in Haiti to assess for resilience and vulnerability across time—Years 2012, 2013, and 2014—and locations—Blanchard, Damien, Canaan, and the Providence Orphanage. First, a pilot study using Jungian interpretive analysis and grounded theory coded interpretive impressions of 13 7- to 9-year-old children’s drawings and identified two predominant themes: resilience and vulnerability (Afolayan, 2015). The pilot emergent themes informed the rating system for the HTP drawings (Roysircar et al, 2017).…”

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“…Maladjustment was indicated by a person with no nose or who was naked. Focal points became resilience and vulnerability criteria for the rating items of the HTP (Afolayan, 2015). of the online supplemental materials provides the scoring of an 8-year-old girl’s house, tree, and person drawings for Resilience (RES) and Vulnerability (VUL).…”

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“…The authors’ studies on vulnerability and resilience of children living in chronic or relentless contextual trauma in Haiti made them ask, how do Haitian mothers help their children with trauma coping? To answer this question, only two factors were studied, Resilience-Vulnerability Integrated and Person Feeling Unloved, as a parallel to the constructs of resilience and vulnerability of previous studies (Afolayan, 2015; Roysircar et al, 2017). In addition, because of small samples sizes (mothers/caregivers and their children), the design and number of analyses were kept simple.…”

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Trauma coping of mothers and children among poor people in Haiti: Mixed methods study of community-level research.

Roysircar

Thompson

Geisinger

2019

American Psychologist

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A qualitative interview is sensitive to social complexities and personal subjectivities, whereas quantitative assessment relies on preexisting frameworks to place responses in hierarchical frequencies and counts individual experiences as an additive aggregate. Using both enquiries, a mixed methods sequential exploratory design studied mothers' focus groups and their children's trauma assessment in 3 poor communities in the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The authors partnered with a free primary care clinic where they serve as U.S. behavioral health psychologists. The study enquired how Haitian children are socialized by their mothers'/caregivers' religious and nonreligious coping in the context of continuous trauma. Focus group questions for mothers (n ϭ 27), the House-Tree-Person (HTP) drawing test for their children (n ϭ 42), and their directions were translated, back-translated, and administered in Haitian Créole by trained Haitian staff members. Religious, African humanism, and shame stigma themes emerged from the focus groups. Correlations and multiple regressions examined relationships of the frequencies of the mothers' coping themes and with their children's scores on 2 factorial dimensions, Resilience-Vulnerability Integrated and Person Feeling Unloved. These conceptual factors were derived from culturally adapted ratings of children's HTP drawings in previous studies in the same communities (Roysircar, Colvin, Afolayan, Thompson, & Robertson, 2017;Roysircar, Geisinger, & Thompson, 2019). Significant negative relationships of religious and African humanism coping with shame stigma coping and their respective significant negative and positive relationships with children's trauma adjustment scores are integrated in a mixed methods design, related to the African diaspora literature, and approached with transnational feminist theory. Public Significance StatementOn the basis of the present transnational study in a primary care setting in Haiti, it is understood that mothers' religiousness and African cultural values can help to alleviate their children's despair and provide hope in traumatic circumstances of poverty compounded by disasters. Children of mothers who spoke more about the ways that religion and cultural values helped their children during adversity expressed less vulnerability than children of mothers who spoke less about the benefits of religion and cultural values. The findings were nuanced with children's expression of ineffectiveness.

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