Angola is a fully developed African country which faces several difficulties in accessing resources to proceed with psychological assessment and intervention in general, emphasizing the striking lack of validated instruments for the Angolan population. Moreover, like many other historical moments, the beginning of psychology in this country is marked by negative approaches to human functioning. In fact, an excessive demand for psychopathology is observed, which is a paradox because there are few studies on the incidence, prevalence, or description of psychodiagnostics in Angola. Therefore, with this research, we reflect on the potential application of the psychological assessment test of Human Figure Drawing by Goodenough in this population, both from the perspective of intellectual assessment and also as a broader and less negatively labeled approach to children's drawing. This case study describes multiple applications of the test in six children of Angolan nationality, aged 6–10 years, living in the province of Benguela, Angola. We expect to contribute to the debate about its use for children of this country and go beyond its mere application as an evaluation tool by exploring innovative perspectives arising from the classic line of humanist psychology and raising awareness of new approaches in the context of recent positive psychology.
Design; Evaluation; Psychology
