Graduation Date
1987
Document Type
Thesis
Program
Other
Program
Arts
Committee Chair Name
Dr. John Gai
Committee Chair Affiliation
Cal Poly Humboldt Faculty or Staff
Second Committee Member Name
Dr. Jerrald D. Krause
Third Committee Member Name
Bettye Elmore
Keywords
Art
Subject Categories
Art
Abstract
This study began as an inquiry into the nature of the relationship between color experience and emotion; in the course of clinical experience and the study’s development it has been expanded to include psychosocial elements. The writer has struggled to integrate the disparate literature in the field and the study itself began to fade in importance. Suffice to say, what has materialized is an examination of the merits of one tool as an indicator of the "need for service" in referring school children for mental health evaluation. Each year numbers of children and their families are discovered to need mental health services. The process of determining who should be referred is difficult to manage for the classroom teacher. This is further complicated because of the teacher's lack of access to the other contacts of the child's life. There seems to be a need for an easily administered discriminating device. There is literature which indicates that the child exists in a family-school-neighborhood constellation which can be viewed systemically. There is also literature which seems to indicate that children symbolize their realities. One of those symbols which children employ is color and vi there are studies which point to a possible relationship between "color and emotional functioning”. This study is an attempt to bridge these two worlds of inquiry.
Recommended Citation
Jaime, Kathy, "The Color Response Inventory: An Attempt to Join the Educational and Mental Health Systems" (1987). Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects. 2444.
https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/etd/2444