The Need-Threat Analysis A Scoring System for the Children’s Apperception Test

Over the years thematic projective techniques, like the Children’s Apperception Test (CAT), have been found to be rich sources of clinical insight, and they have proven to be especially useful in the clinical assessment of children (Chandler & Johnson, 1991). Yet some issues of validity, and especially reliability, remain to be resolved if we are to go beyond ideographic, descriptive interpretations to fully exploit such useful techniques.