March 17 Birds Nest Drawing

This assessment (which was a lot of fun!) was created by Donna Kaiser in 1996 is used to assess attachment. It can be used with both children and adults. It is very interesting in that it has no time limit, and that you create a story to go with the picture. I think this makes it particularly different than other assessments. This is also an interesting directive because it has been used on various populations, and to me seems like you could get a pretty consistent result from all. This assessment is also very specific, dealing with attachment theory explicitly. This directive can also seem less threatening than using a family drawing, as you are not mentioning anyone specifically, but one can infer the same things from this type of directive.