The Bender-Gestalt Test and Psychoneurotics

1954 ◽  
Vol 100 (421) ◽  
pp. 980-982 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Clinical Findings ◽  
Clinical Use ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test

Since the publication of Bender's (3) “Visual-Motor Gestalt Test and its Clinical Use” many attempts have been undertaken to validate the clinical findings which she outlined in her Monograph.In his “Tentative Guide to the Administration of the Bender-Gestalt Test” Hutt (7) did more than anyone else to put into practice the clinical use of the Bender-Gestalt, but his finding on Psychoneurotics have not been confirmed by empirical studies. However, it is of interest and encouraging to find many of the subsequent empirical studies substantiating most of the original clinical uses outlined by Bender and Hutt.

Written Expression in Boys with Attention Deficit Disorder

1994 ◽  
Vol 79 (3) ◽  
pp. 1131-1138 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Peter Resta ◽  
John Eliot
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Attention Deficit Disorder ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Language Assessment ◽  
Written Language ◽  
Attention Deficits ◽  
Written Expression ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Teachers And Parents ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test

32 boys, between the ages of 8 and 13 years, were identified on four teachers' and parents' rating scales (including the diagnostic criteria of the DSM-III for ADD) as showing attention deficits and hyperactivity (ADD + H; n = 10), attention deficits without hyperactivity (ADD - H; n = 11), or without ADD (attention deficits controls; n = 11). All subjects were administered Bender's Visual-motor Gestalt test and the Written Language Assessment. The ADD + H children produced significantly more errors on the Bender-Gestalt test, and both groups with attention deficits had lower (poorer) scores on most of the written language subtests. Results were interpreted as providing evidence that these children possessed significant limitations in their writing, copying, and composition.

An Enquiry into the Determinants of a Differentiation between Elderly “Organic” and “Non-Organic” Psychiatric Patients on the Bender Gestalt Test

1957 ◽  
Vol 103 (431) ◽  
pp. 364-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. B. Shapiro ◽  
Jack Field ◽  
F. Post
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
General Purpose ◽  
The Other ◽  
Level Of Confidence ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
High Level ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test ◽  
And Control

In a previous study, Shapiro, Post, Lofving and Inglis (10) found that a modified version of the Bender Visual-Motor Gestalt Test differentiated, at a high level of confidence, three groups of elderly psychiatric patients: brain-damaged patients, functionals and a group of doubtful diagnosis. This level of confidence was far higher than that of any of the other 24 tests used. Furthermore, a number of recent studies have shown that the Bender test differentiated Organic from non-Organic subjects (2, 4, 6, 7, 8). In our own Department Yates (13) found significant differences on measures of the reproductions of other designs between Organics and Functionals. In view of these findings we decided to investigate our own results further. Our general purpose was to measure and control some of the variables appearing relevant in the performance of the task and in this way make possible testable explanations for the results.

Comparison of Bender-Gestalt Reproductions by Patients with Peripheral Neuropathy

1967 ◽  
Vol 24 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1317-1318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel Hirschenfang ◽  
Maurycy Silber ◽  
Joseph G. Benton
Keyword(s):  
Peripheral Neuropathy ◽  
Motor Coordination ◽  
Visual Motor Coordination ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test

The Bender-Gestalt test was administered to two groups of 20 Ss with alcoholic neuropathies and 20 Ss with metabolic/infectious neuropathies. The former patients did as well as the non-alcoholic patients, suggesting that those groups resemble each other in visual motor coordination on the Bender-Gestalt.

Learning disabilities and visual-motor skills; comparing assessment from a hapto-virtual reality tool and Bender-Gestalt test

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Line Tremblay ◽  
Brahim Chebbi ◽  
Stéphane Bouchard ◽  
Krystel Cimon-Lambert ◽  
Jessica Carmichael
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Motor Skills ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test

Comparison of Visual Motor Development in Hong Kong and the USA Assessed on the Qualitative Scoring System for the Modified Bender-Gestalt Test

2001 ◽  
Vol 88 (1) ◽  
pp. 236-240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Po Wah Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Motor Development ◽  
Scoring System ◽  
Primary Schools ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Age Group ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Percentile Scores ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test

This study compared the visuomotor development of young children in Hong Kong and the USA assessed on the Qualitative Scoring System for the Modified Bender-Gestalt test. 744 children aged 4:6 to 8:5 years from 6 kindergartens and 6 primary schools in Hong Kong were administered the Modified Bender-Gestalt test. The Qualitative Scoring System was used to measure the children's visuomotor development. Their visuomotor scores were then compared with norms for children in the USA. Analysis indicated significant differences across all age groups of 4:6 to 8:5 years in 6-mo. units. Consistent with previous research, children in Hong Kong outperformed their western peers. Percentile scores and T scores for children in Hong Kong in each age group were reported.

A Review of the Clinical and Research Use of the Bender-Gestalt Test

1995 ◽  
Vol 81 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1272-1274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Piotrowski
Keyword(s):  
Citation Analysis ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Standard Test ◽  
Research Use ◽  
Clinical Settings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Motor ◽  
Scoring Schemes ◽  
Bender Gestalt Test ◽  
Test Use

The Bender Visual-motor Gestalt test has been an integral part of the standard test battery for the past 50 years. However, the test has been extensively critiqued on issues of inappropriate administration, scoring schemes, and clinical interpretation. In an analysis of recent surveys on test use, the Bender-Gestalt remains quite popular in a variety of clinical settings across all age groups. Secondly, the test has a respectable level of research interest, based on a citation analysis of the Psychological Abstracts database.

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