Skazkoterapiya is a psychotherapeutic direction, where when analyzing and using images of heroes a person can overcome his fears, negative personality traits. The most actively used skazkoterapiya in work with preschool children. A fairy tale for a child is a special reality. And working through a fairy tale, the game can adjust its manifestations of negative behavior.
Fairy tale therapy for preschool children: types of fairy tale therapy
There are the following types of fairy tales:
- didactic: the child is told about new concepts (home, nature, family, rules of behavior in society);
- artistic: acquaintance of the child with aesthetic principles, traditions of mankind;
- diagnostic: in case, if a child chose a favorite fairy tale and a hero, then in this context the hero is the prototype of the child, whatever he would like to be;
- preventive: fairy tales for reading, serving to the accumulation of knowledge by the child;
- meditative: forms a positive state of the baby (for example, before going to bed).
Fairy tale therapy for hyperactive children
Using the method of skazkoterapii in work with children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD in children ) allows to normalize the emotional and speech state of the child, reduce excessive motor activity. Having worked a fairy tale together with a pedagogue-psychologist, a hyperactive child learns to behave differently in different life situations: to control his aggressiveness, to become more calm, to avoid conflicts, where possible.
Fairy tale therapy in speech therapy with children
If a child has severe speech disorders that require additional work with a speech therapist, then it will be effective to include the method of fairy-tale therapy in the work with such a baby, since fairy-tale therapy can solve the following problems:
- develop cognitive abilities;
- to form cause-effect relationships;
- To assimilate the social norms adopted in society;
- Develop a speech function in an unobtrusive, simple and accessible form of the game for the child.
It is important to take into account the speech status of the child, the degree of severity of speech disorders, the features of the formation of mental functions and the age of the child.
Tales of children's fears
Reading the fairy tale, playing stories with the main characters who successfully defeat the villains and their fears, the child immerses himself in the atmosphere of the fairy tale, correlates himself and his behavior with the protagonist and thus works out his own fears.
Fairy tale therapy for toddlers and development of speech
Acquaintance with the fairy tale, its heroes, their personification with their own personality, makes it possible to speed up the development of coherent speech in a child. When there comes a period of transition from using words to pronouncing whole phrases, it is important to read as much as possible to the fairy tale kid, which contains a large number of simple and easy to repeat dialogues.
The use of fairy tale therapy in kindergarten
When a child listens to a fairy tale, he plunges into the events that occur in it and feels the emotions of the fairy tale heroes more strongly. This makes it possible for the child to look at himself from the outside. Returning to the real world, he begins to feel more
The most popular method of fairy tale therapy is used by teachers of preschool institutions, because it helps:
- to develop, develop and teach children productive skills of interaction with other people, to establish mutual understanding in the children's team,
- develop speech, higher mental functions: thinking, memory, imagination.
Fairy tale therapy in the kindergarten takes a special place, because it is children who most easily and easily learn the norms of behavior that the main characters of fairy tales show.