Environment influence on child's artistic expression

The study is dealing with the influence of environment to the children{\crq}s creative expression. Aim of the work is to find out, what is the difference between the creative expressions of the children from common families, those from problematic families, who are currently growing up in one of the facilities for children requiring immediate assistance and those who are being grown up in other institution or sanatorium. The study is not focused to the complex level of quality of creative expression only, but also to the level of formal part of the creative expression, and, first of all, to the contentual part of the graphics, especially when drawing topics are linked to the family. In the theoretical section, the basic terms linked to the given problems are defined. First of all, the problems linked with the life in the family, with the creative expression and methods of the family psychological diagnostics are concerned. Practical section is aimed to make clear, what is the difference among creative expression of the children between 6 to 12 years of age, who are growing up in different environment (children from common families, those from problematic families, who are currently growing up in one of the facilities for children requiring immediate assistance and those who are being grown up in the children{\crq}s house). For the needs of practical section the method of qualitative research was selected, where the main focus is to assess the creative expression of the individual children. For data collection purpose, the method of Family draw was selected, that was extended and modified for the need of the study. The main part of the study is comprised by the summary of the results and their interpretation