TRINCA, W. (1989) – O Procedimento de Desenhos de Família com Estórias (DF-E) na investigação da personalidade de crianças e adolescentes [The Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure (DF-E): an auxiliary tool for clinical investigation of the personality of children and adolescents]. São Paulo (SP), Boletim de Psicologia, 39, (90/91): 45-54.
The author introduced in the 1970’s the procedure of the Drawing-of-Family-with-Story Procedure (DF-E) as an auxiliary tool for clinical investigation of the personality of children and adolescents to be used in the context of psychological diagnosis. It consists of the application and evaluation of four drawings of families (any family; an ideal family; a family where someone is not well; their own family). Every drawing is used as a stimulus of thematic apperception. The clinical work with such a technique reveals it as being useful for the apprehension of nuclear conflicts of the personality, in specific moments of one’s life. This tool originated from thematic and graphic techniques, basically similar to Drawing-and-Story Procedure, presented by the same author, in 1972.