PSYCHOLOGICAL REPORT
1. Socio-demographic details
Name: R.H
Age: 12
DOB: 24.01.2010
Sex: M
Educational Qualification: 6th Standard
Name of examiner: TS
Referred by: College
Date of reporting: 17/10/22
Date of testing: 17/10/22
Source of information: Mother and child
Reliability of information: Adequate: Reliable: Yes
2. Referral question
To assess the Personality of the subject using the Children’s Apperception Test (CAT)
3. Evaluation procedure
To administer the Children’s Apperception Test (CAT) on the subject to assess the
personality motives and problem-solving of the subject.
4. Behavioural observation
Rapport establishment: Adequate
Alertness and consciousness: Adequate
Attention: Adequate
Eye contact: Adequate
Psychomotor activity: Adequate
Speech: Adequate
Cooperation: Adequate
Motivation: Adequate
Comprehension: Adequate
Problems related to vision/hearing/motor/other: No
5. Background information
Birth history
Type of delivery: Normal
Birth cry: Present
Planned or unplanned: Planned
Presence of birth complications: None
Milestones:
Motor: Normal Cognitive: Normal Speech: Normal
Social and emotional: Normal
Family history
Type of family: nuclear family
Family tree:
Presence of mental disorder in the family (if any): No mental disorders are present in the
family.
Heart attack 53Y 58Y 48Y
36Y 34Y
15Y Patient, 12Y
Educational history
The child is currently studying in 6th standard in a government school in Bangalore.
Test Results
Story 1 Story 2 Story 3 Story 4 Story 5
1 Main theme Sibling Rivalry Power struggle Survival Survival (escape) Play
2 Main hero Baby Chick Baby Bear Mouse Mother Monkey Two kids
3 Main need of hero Food and Need for Achievement Dominance Protection Play
Affiliation
4 Conception of Hostile Not Secure, Threatening, Threatening Positive
environment threatening, struggle Challenging
for power
5 a) Parental figures a) Mother Hen, a) - a) - a) Mother monkey, a) Parents:
are seen as and the Neglect seeks refuge
subjects reaction
b) Contemporary b) Other Siblings, b) Bigger Bear, b) Lion, Rival b) - b) –
figures m or f and Rejection Opponent, Rivalry
subjects reaction
c) Junior figures c) - c) - c) – c) Two children c) -
m or f and
subjects reaction
6 Significant Affiliation vs Achievement vs Survival vs Aggression vs Autonomy vs
conflicts Rivalry Inadequacy Danger Intragression Compliance
7 Nature of anxieties High anxiety High Moderate High Mild Anxiety
8 Main defenses Rationalization - - - -
against conflicts
and fears
9 Severity of Unjust Immediate, Unjust Just Just Too Lenient
superego as
manifested by
10 Integration of ego Hero- adequate Hero- adequate Hero- adequate Hero- adequate Hero- adequate
manifesting itself Outcome- realistic Outcome- realistic and Outcome- Outcome- realistic Outcome- realistic
in and unhappy unhappy realistic, happy Thought processes- and happy
Hero: Drive Thought processes- Thought appropriate, Thought
Outcome: Thought original, complete, processes- complete, concrete processes-
Drive control: processes- concrete appropriate, appropriate,
Thought processes appropriate, complete, complete,
as revealed by plot complete, concrete concrete
being: concrete
Story 6 Story 7 Story 8 Story 9 Story 10
1 Main theme Hunger Survival Aggression Belongingness Affection
2 Main hero Baby Bear Monkey Small monkey Rabbit Puppy
3 Main need of Hunger Survival Play Nurturance and Care and
hero care comfort
4 Conception Secure and Threatened Unsupportive Isolated Supportive and
of positive positive
environment
5 a) Parental a) Mother a) – a) Mother a) Uncle- Hostile a) Mother dog,
figure are bear monkey, compassion,
seen as and Authoritarian tenderness
the subjects
reaction b) –
b) Tiger b) friends-
b) b) Guests
b) – supportive
Contemporar
y figures m
or f and
c) –
subjects c) -
c) - c) - c) -
reaction
c) Junior
figures m or f
and subjects
reaction
6 Significant - Affiliation vs Autonomy vs Affiliation vs -
conflicts Rejection Compliance Rejection
7 Nature of No anxieties High High Moderate Anxiety No anxieties
anxieties
8 Main - Reaction Acting out Repression -
defenses Formation
against
conflicts and
fears
9 Severity of Just Immediate Too Lenient Just Just
superego as
manifested
by
1 Integration Hero- Hero- Hero- Hero- adequate Hero- adequate
0 of ego adequate adequate adequate Outcome- Outcome-
manifesting Outcome- Outcome- Outcome- realistic and realistic, happy
itself in realistic and realistic and realistic and unhappy Thought
Hero: happy happy happy Thought processes-
Outcome: Thought Thought Thought processes- appropriate,
Drive processes- processes- processes- appropriate, complete,
control: appropriate, appropriate, appropriate, complete, concrete
Thought complete, complete, complete, concrete
processes as concrete concrete concrete
revealed by
plot being:
6. Summary and Interpretation
The child RH is a 12-year-old male on whom the Child Apperception test was administered.
He is the younger child with an older sibling living in a nuclear family consisting of her
father & mother. He is studying in 6th grade in a private school in Bengaluru.
The child was shown 10 cards with various images and the child made stories which were
used to interpret various aspects of the child.
Unconscious structure and drive of the subject could be understood through the major
themes, main hero and the needs of the hero in the stories told by the child.
The major themes revolved around sibling rivalry, power struggle, survival, play, hunger,
aggression, belongingness and affection. The hero who is the representation of the ego of the
subject revealed being age appropriate and the child did not seem to name the characters of
the stories, instead addressed to them as monkey, baby, chickens, etc. In one card the child
identified himself with one female figure.
The main needs that were noted among the stories of the hero included – food and affiliation,
achievement, dominances, protection, play, hunger, survival, nurturance, care and comfort.
Conception of environment could be understood through the elaborations that the child has
made about the environment that the story was based on, which was noted to be unsupportive
and threatening.
Relations to others were revealed on the basis of how the characters have interacted with each
other in the stories that the child had created, where the themes of rejection, neglect seeking
refuge, hostility and compassion were noted. From the parental figure, authoritative parenting
was noted. The stories mainly reflected unsupportive, aggressive and hostile family structure
Significant conflicts that were revealed through the stories were appropriate & concrete. The
conflicts like affiliation vs rivalry, survival vs danger, autonomy vs compliance, and
affiliation vs rejection
The nature of anxiety can be observed in stories ranging from moderate to high and rarely
mild , where certain drives were not being fulfilled instead rationalization defence
mechanism was used by the child.
Main defences against conflicts and fears which were observed along the stories included
rationalization, reaction formation, repression, acting out. It was seen that these defences
were appropriately applicable in the situation it was applied in the stories indicating the child
having adequate use of defences. Severity of superego as manifestation was noted among the
stories to be mostly just and immediate.
Integration and strength of ego was seen to be appropriately revealed in the stories through
the description of the hero. Hero in most of the stories were happy and content, and the
outcome in most of the stories was realistic, and concrete.
Thought process of the child was revealed through the stories to be very original and novel as
all the stories were unique and different, and did not have resemblance to popular stories and
tales commonly known. The thought process was seen to be appropriate, complete, and
concrete.
Overall, the stories reveal that the child had appropriate functioning, language, thought
clarity, and processing capacity, with needs being not met in most of the stories.
Also, the gender differentiation and moral development is still developing and is age
appropriate to the child.
