Disturbing Lockdown Drawings Show Effect on Children’s Mental Health

Disturbing Lockdown Drawings Show Effect on Children’s Mental Health

• 68 children aged four to 14 were asked to reflect on their Covid experience 

• They then had to draw how it was making them think and feel at home

• One child drew a distressed person strapped to a bed and wrote ‘constricted’

• Dr Richard Jolley carried out study with colleagues at Staffordshire University

An associate professor of psychology has revealed disturbing children’s drawings from Covid lockdowns which show themes of death, loss, loneliness and restriction.

In a study by Dr Richard Jolley and co-researchers Dr Sarah Rose, Dr Romina Vivaldi and Dr Claire Barlow, of Staffordshire University, 68 children between four and 14 were asked to reflect on their Covid experience and draw how it was making them think and feel.

One child drew a distressed figure with all four limbs strapped down to what looks like a hospital bed and wrote ‘constricted’.

Another drew a personified Covid cell next to an upset image of themselves and captioned it: ‘I think Covid is happy and he has stol my smile.’

Another child drew a personified Covid cell next to an upset image of themselves and captioned it: ‘I think Covid is happy and he has stol my smile’

27 of the 68 children showed the theme of prohibited behaviour in their art while 35 drew a person on their own.

Meanwhile, other common themes included furniture and buildings while seven children presented death and loss in their work.

Dr Jolley, who carried out the study with his colleagues, told MailOnline: ‘It really showed they knew what was happening.

‘Unsurprisingly, they did communicate what we all were thinking about, in terms of our feelings and the separation [from] people, and what we weren’t able to do [but also] what we were able to do.

‘I think these drawings really reflected their own lives and what they thought they were facing and what they knew.’

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