- Concept
- Purpose and Application
- Theoretical Background
- Administration
- Sample Interview
- Interpretation
- Psychometric Properties
- Standardization
- Advantages
The Fairy Tale Test is a projective test for children aged 6-12 yrs and has been developed as part of a doctoral thesis by Carina Coulacoglou, at the University of Exeter in Great Britain (1989-1993). Since then it has been translated and standardized in different countries. It has already been published in French, Italian, Spanish, Hungarian, Slovenian, Polish, Russian and Greek.
The material of the test consists of: 21 cards (7 sets of cards), each set consisting of three cards presented to the child at a time, a manual, and 25 protocols which demonstrate the general set of questions the child is asked.
The characters depicted on the cards are part of one or more fairy tales (“Little Red Riding Hood”, “Snow White and the seven dwarfs”, “Jack and the Beanstalk” etc.). In the stories, the thoughts and emotions of the characters are not clearly defined, for example, the reader is unaware of the underlying motive of the wolf’s violent behavior: was he hungry or bad? Therefore, the children through the process of identification, project their own thoughts, emotions or conflicts. Furthermore, in the last 2 sets of cards depicting “scenes” of the fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood and Snow White, children have the opportunity to develop their own story and sequence of events, independently of the actual version of the story.
