Therapeutic fairy tales are a simple, but very effective tool. Fairy tale therapy is shown both to small and "adult" children. Fears, phobias, a difficult period in life, it is worthwhile to sit down and come up with a fairy tale where the main hero with honor comes out of different tests and becomes stronger - and in reality suddenly resources appear and fears go away.
Therapeutic Tales - what is it?
Therapy with a fairy tale is a direction in psychology that allows you to create miracles of transformation in a safe space for a child and an adult, solve complex problems, simulate a new reality and part with old grievances, live "frozen" feelings in order to get rid of them completely. Therapeutic fairy tales for preschoolers in conjunction with the game are an integral part for the full development of the child's psyche .
What is the function of therapeutic fairy tales?
Short therapeutic tales contain the experience of this or that character in a concise form, but this does not lose its value and carries a certain semantic load. Functions of psychotherapeutic fairy tales:
- in a simple form, they convey important life values;
- learn virtue;
- help to cope with the example of heroes with difficulties;
- contain information about how the world works;
- show the importance of different tests and the development of experience throughout life;
- help to cope with grief, fears;
- carry a corrective component in the development of destructive behavior.
Therapeutic Tales for Correcting Behavior
Therapeutic fairy tales in correctional work with children are an important part of the work of a psychologist. Tales are easy to digest and help to learn the necessary patterns of behavior. Corrective Tales:
- " Sandy volcano " E.S. Mosina - correction of the child's greed;
- " Tale of Kolya and his friends " L. Tsvirko - to work with aggressive children;
- " The Tale of Hare Zabiyaka " I. Gurin - if the child is fighting;
- " The Tale of a Missing Smile " by D. Trushin - correction of rude behavior, aggression directed at parents.
Therapeutic fairy tales for children
Therapeutic fairy tales - they need any child, because unlike an adult, he does not have such a rich experience as an adult in solving emerging problems, the child is vulnerable to the outside world, the adult's task is to help the child with the help of a fairy tale to show how the main character copes with the arising in front of him problem. Therapeutic tales for the night have a penetrating property in the subconscious , where the processing and assimilation of the necessary information takes place, and if it is necessary to heal fear.
Therapeutic Tales from Fears
Therapeutic fairy tale for the night for children helps to fight against nightmares, which are at this or that period of children. Often parents at a psychologist's reception complain that their child can not fall asleep because of the fear of being stolen by "Babaika" or Baba Yaga. What therapeutic tales of fear can be used:
- "Who lives in the dark" a collection of fairy tales;
- "Where the Monsters Live" by M. Sendak;
- "The Fifth Sheep" - G. Harriet;
- "The elephant who was afraid of the dark" O.V. Khukhlaeva, O.E. Khukhlaev.
Therapeutic Tales for Teenagers
Therapeutic tales in working with adolescents are an excellent tool for influencing a teenager's personality. Adolescence is the time when complexes manifest themselves very brightly, some destructive features that are both the result of exposure to a dysfunctional family and the manifestation of a hormonal "shock" are beginning to manifest. Therapeutic tales are a simple way to convey important values to the adolescent and see the resources.
Therapeutic fairy tale about school
The functions of therapeutic fairy tales tell simply about the complex. The school is a place where it is sometimes difficult to "survive" literally to adolescents with a vulnerable and sensitive psyche. Therapeutic psychological tales about different heroes who pass the test with dignity help schoolchildren cope with the difficulties arising in school. Tales of Heroes also have a corrective component.
Therapeutic Tale of Friendship
Short psychological tale for teenagers the psychologist presents unostentatiously in the form of a story, parable or story which he witnessed. Friendship is a very important component of the life of any person, true friendship is strong and not subject to adversities and teaches a lot about a person. Teenagers in the example can be brought the tale of I. Vachkov "About friendship and its loss."
This tale of two friends of the ants Mure and Rume, who wanted to test their friendship and were sure that they would pass all the tests. For this, they turned to Mantis, and he advised them to turn to the sorceress Pchela. The sorceress came up with a test and made them dumb, Moore and Rum successfully passed it, learned to understand each other without words. In the second trial, Bee uttered a curse so that the ants began to be rude, lying and offending each other. At first they succumbed to the charms, but they realized on time that it was impossible - friendship stood firm.
Friends were asked for more tests. The bee experienced their friendship with anger, with fear - all survived, but that was not enough for them, and Moore and Ram asked for the final test, Bee did not agree for long, but listened to their request and made them selfish. So the strong friendship of the ants collapsed - it turned out to be a very difficult test, because the egoists see only themselves. Friendship should be cherished.
Therapeutic Tales for Adults
The purpose of therapeutic fairy tales is to help a person live an unfavorable period in life, heal the soul and understand why certain things happen to him. Therapeutic medical fairy tales are designed for both children and adults - it is a universal key that helps to change life for the better through the awareness and living feelings. Even reading ordinary fairy tales gives a vision of how to re-enter the resource state.
Therapeutic Tales for Mood
The advantages of therapeutic fairy tales are that they are unobtrusive and easily penetrate into the subconscious, allowing you to get rid of destructive programs. It is desirable to invent fairy tales yourself. As you can lift your spirits, it's very easy to imagine yourself as a wizard responsible for your life and your fortunes. Is it sad? It's time to compose a fairy tale, not necessarily great, for example, about Sadness.
Once upon a time there was Sadness, and she was very lonely, no one wanted to be friends with her, everyone drove her away, and even were afraid to be with her side - from this the Sadness grew even more gloomy, like a cloud, so she walked, she wandered around the world and began to doubt for what it is generally needed, why did its Creator create, what is the meaning of it. Despaired Grief and she decided to go to the famous Sage, maybe he knows what the meaning of her existence is.
The sage, to the surprise of Sadness, accepted her with open arms and told her how important it is for people. "You," said the Sage, "help to live the loss, the fact that it's time to let go and it needs to be done with due respect, but in you it is, there can be no further path without letting go, all illusions should be let go, and it's always sad, only with a full life feeling of sadness a person enters a state of zeroing and is gradually ready to move on, that's how important you are! ". A fairy tale says that all feelings have the right to be.
Therapeutic Tales of Guilt
The therapeutic fairy tale on the psychology of guilt helps to realize this feeling, which is so stuck in a person as a splinter, that a person feels that he is sad, hurts, but can not identify him. The sense of guilt is a destructive feeling and is characterized by the fact that:
- based on a basic sense of shame, formed in childhood;
- deprives a person of responsibility and ability to act;
- being in a sense of guilt, a person subconsciously awaits punishment;
- energetically a person with an old sense of guilt is in a child's position, that is, in a regressive state, that means helplessness.
Therapeutic tales of guilt help to feel and release guilt. Tale of guilt. There was a lovely young woman Sofia in one apartment with her elderly mother. Sophia has already knocked down for 30 years, but she has never been in a relationship, she never dreamed of a family, because she was taking care of her sick mother. It was worth Sophia to stay at work or at rare meetings with a single girlfriend, her mother demanded her to call and said that she immediately went home, because the pressure is off scale and it's time to give her medicine.
Sophia broke off, she hurried home. Because my mother is the most valuable thing in a person's life, and the mother who raised you alone without her father gave all her health and that tiny salary, denying herself such a mother "holy". Sophia's mother constantly reminded her of her only daughter, causing a sense of guilt. The more Sophia did for the mother, the more the mother demanded attention, denying herself all the joys of life.
At one point, looking at herself in the mirror, Sophia was amazed at how her reflection was: black eyes falling, lowered corners of her lips, as in the case of grief, she looked like an old woman and realized that it was time to choose herself . But it demanded of her to take responsibility, at first she got angry with her mother that she used it, but realized that her responsibility was that she had grown up and could choose to continue to feel guilty or become an adult and build her own life.