Professional training, psychodiagnostic skill, and kinetic family drawings

On the basis of Kinetic Family Drawings, doctoral level clinicians, predoctoral interns, and hospital secretaries judged 36 children to be normal or disturbed and indicated their degree of confidence in each rating. The groups were not found to differ in overall diagnostic accuracy or in degree of confidence, but professional training level did appear related to the ability to better a chance level of performance. The performance of a KFD expert was no better than the mean performance of judges in the three experimental groups.