Mb. Solem et Ts. Novik, INFORMANTS EXPERIENCE WITH THE KVEBAEK-FAMILY-SCULPTURE-TECHNIQUE - ACOMPARISON BETWEEN A CLINICAL AND AN EPIDEMIOLOGIC SAMPLE, Nordic journal of psychiatry, 49(6), 1995, pp. 439-445
We measured the informants' experience with the Kvebaek Family Sculptu
re Technique (KFST), a symbolic figure placement technique, by adminis
tering a questionnaire to 28 adolescent inpatient families and 35 adol
escent families participating in an epidemiological study of mental he
alth in the general population. We asked whether configurations reflec
ted feelings between family members, whether informants were significa
ntly influenced by the situation in which the technique was administer
ed, and whether the configurations were stable in terms of showing typ
ical family relationships. The findings support the impression that th
e KFST is reliable in its use with both clinical and normal population
samples. In general, informants in both samples confirmed that the in
strument reflected feelings between family members. However, the diffe
rences between the samples show that subjects probably behave differen
tly in a test situation, depending on the amount of psychiatric proble
ms. Further research is warranted, to address the influence of context
in relation to individual and family psychiatric factors.