Puppets in Therapy: An Assessment Procedure

Irwin, Eleanor C.

doi:10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1985.39.3.389

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“…The BPI builds on the creative work of Eder (1990) and other investigators who have used puppets (Irwin, 1985;Schaefer & OConner, 1983;Woltmann, 1952) in studies of young children. The BPI method blends structured and clinical interviewing techniques to elicit children's self-perceptions in that the exchange between the children and the puppets is shaped by each child's own mode of communication (e.g., verbal or nonverbal) and style of interaction (e.g., inhibited or uninhibited).…”

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“…First, children have short attention spans, especially when working with paper and pencil measures (Irwin, 1985). Despite attempts to make these approaches more appealing through pictures and quantity icons, young children tend to favor toys and life-like props for self-expression (Greenspan & Greenspan, 1991).…”

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“…Early studies showed that puppets could keep 4-to 7-year-old children from clinical and economically disadvantaged samples engaged, even when discussing anxietyproducing topics, such as death (Bernhart & Prager, 1985), sadness (Irwin, 1985;Schaefer & O'Conner, 1983), and aggressive behavior with peers (Woltmann, 1952). In more recent applications, puppets have been used effectively to assess young children's perceptions of themselves.…”

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Assessing Young Children's Views of Their Academic, Social, and Emotional Lives: An Evaluation of the Self‐Perception Scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview

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o w a n , and C a r o l y n P . C o w a n In a prospective, longitudinal study we examined the psychometric properties of the self-perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI). A total sample of 97 young children were assessed with the BPI at 3 time points: preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. The BPI assesses young children's self-perceptions of their school adjustment in 6 domains: academic competence, achievement motivation, social competence, peer acceptance, depression-anxiety, and aggression-hostility. Results showed that 4%-to 71/z-year-olds possess a multidimensional self-concept that can be reliably measured and that the BPI is sensitive to normative changes and individual differences in young boys' and girls' views of themselves. Support for the method's validity was derived from consistent and meaningful patterns of convergence between children's self-perceptions and ratings by adult informants-mothers, fathers, and teachers-as well as standardized test scores. In fact, in this study, the concordance between young children's self-reports and parallel ratings by teachers or mothers were consistently as strong as if not stronger than the concordance between mothers' and teachers' ratings.

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“…Overcoming Obstacles to the Assessment of Young Children's Self-Perceptions Using Puppets The task of eliciting reliable self-reports from young children is complicated by a variety of developmental factors. First, children have short attention spans, especially when working with paper and pencil measures (Irwin, 1985). Despite attempts to make these approaches more appealing through pictures and quantity icons, young children tend to favor toys and life-like props for self-expression (Greenspan & Greenspan, 1991).…”

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Assessing Young Children's Views of Their Academic, Social, and Emotional Lives: An Evaluation of the Self-Perception Scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview

Measelle¹,

Ablow²,

Cowan³

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Child Development

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In a prospective, longitudinal study we examined the psychometric properties of the self-perception scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview (BPI). A total sample of 97 young children were assessed with the BPI at 3 time points: preschool, kindergarten, and first grade. The BPI assesses young children's self-perceptions of their school adjustment in 6 domains: academic competence, achievement motivation, social competence, peer acceptance, depression-anxiety, and aggression-hostility. Results showed that 4 1/2- to 7 1/2-year-olds possess a multidimensional self-concept that can be reliably measured and that the BPI is sensitive to normative changes and individual differences in young boys' and girls' views of themselves. Support for the method's validity was derived from consistent and meaningful patterns of convergence between children's self-perceptions and ratings by adult informants--mothers, fathers, and teachers--as well as standardized test scores. In fact, in this study, the concordance between young children's self-reports and parallel ratings by teachers or mothers were consistently as strong as if not stronger than the concordance between mothers' and teachers' ratings.

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“…In research, these young children had difficulty with use of self-report measures because of their developmental level, short attention span, and lower ability to express their thoughts and feelings using paper based measures [2,3] . They may also have difficulty with responding honestly when adults read questions.…”

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The use of puppets as a strategy for communicating with children with type 1 diabetes mellitus

Sparapani

Jacob

Montigny

et al. 2013

JNEP

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The use of puppets is an effective strategy for promoting children to express thoughts and feelings about daily experiences. However, very little information is available about its use in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The procedures for using puppets during qualitative interviews in children with Type 1 diabetes mellitus were described, which involved three steps: 1) constructing the scenario − a "stage" that simulates the environments they encounter (school, home); 2) making puppets that represent the child and people (parents, teachers, siblings, friends) encountered daily, and 3) promoting expression of thoughts and feelings using puppets during qualitative interviews. The advantages of using puppets were to allow children with type 1 diabetes mellitus to freely express thoughts and feelings about living with diabetes, to provide them with opportunities to demonstrate diabetes management behaviors, and expose factors that may interfere with diabetes management. A limitation to the use of puppets was the interviewer requiring skills to dynamically engage the child and encourage their active participation during the interaction. The use of puppets was recommended as a creative strategy for use in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus during qualitative interviews.

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Puppets in Therapy: An Assessment Procedure

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Assessing Young Children's Views of Their Academic, Social, and Emotional Lives: An Evaluation of the Self‐Perception Scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview

Assessing Young Children's Views of Their Academic, Social, and Emotional Lives: An Evaluation of the Self‐Perception Scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview

Assessing Young Children's Views of Their Academic, Social, and Emotional Lives: An Evaluation of the Self-Perception Scales of the Berkeley Puppet Interview

The use of puppets as a strategy for communicating with children with type 1 diabetes mellitus

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