Fairytale Therapy. Explained in simpler terms.
Ukrainian therapists describe how fairytale therapy works.
Fairy tale therapy as a tool for transferring experience “from mouth to mouth”. This is a way of educating a child in a special attitude towards the world, accepted by a given society. Fairy tale therapy is a way of transmitting to an individual (usually a child) necessary moral norms and rules. This information is contained in folk tales and legends, epics, parables. The oldest way of socialization and transfer of experience.
Lesya Nikolaevna Yakovleva
Fairytale therapy as a development tool. In the process of listening, inventing and discussing fairy tales, the child develops the fantasy necessary for effective existence , creativity. He learns the basic mechanisms of searching and making decisions. The same mechanisms work in adults, which is why many trainers and coaches use fairy tales in their work to help clients find a more effective way to solve life problems.
Fairytale therapy as a narrative. Listening and perceiving fairy tales, a person integrates them into his life scenario, shapes it. In children, this process is especially vivid, many children ask to read the same fairy tale to them many times. In some psychotherapeutic approaches (for example, Jungianism, narrative psychotherapy), special attention is paid to these favorite children's fairy tales.
Fairytale therapy as psychotherapy. Working with a fairy tale is aimed directly at treating and helping the client. The fairytale therapist creates conditions in which the client, working with a fairy tale (reading, inventing, acting out, continuing), finds solutions to his life difficulties and problems. Both group and individual forms of work are possible
When should you start reading fairy tales to children?
Marianna Vladimirovna Mozgovaya
fairy tales
You need to start reading to your child as early as possible, and after weaning it is simply necessary, because frustration (stress that accompanies weaning), how loss leads to a lack of something and becomes a stimulus for the development of speech.
What is special about fairy tales and how are they useful?
B fairy tales use metaphor - this is a certain way of thinking and assimilating new information. Metaphor is the transfer of meaning from the known to the unknown, i.e. a situation, for example, the victory of the main character in a fairy tale, a child can learn as a lesson that you should always fight for your desire .
If we consider the metaphor of the Kolobok fairy tale, then you can pay attention, for example, to the song Kolobok - which declares the separation and independence of the child. The last line: “I left my grandmother, I left the wolf and I left you... !” - this song imposes self-confidence, inherent in every healthy personality - from such fairy tales a child gets the phrase “I myself.”
(You feed him, and he takes the spoon and says: “ I myself!!!")
The Tale of the bat Mouse, the Cheshire cat, and the lizard Yasha.
Yulia Aleksandrovna Gladkova
Request: a 5-year-old girl, biting her nails.
Written by Yulia Gladkova.
In the distant distant lands, in the very heart of dense forests, in a large beautiful cave entwined outside with strange plants and lovely flowers, with butterflies fluttering around and singing birds, there lived a little bat. She lived with her mother Myshel and father Myshak, and many friends around, called her all affectionately to the Little Mouse.
Inside the cave there was twilight and pleasant coolness; below there was a fabulously beautiful crystal clear lake and a dirty puddle, around which green frogs and lizards lay down.
The Little Mouse loved to hang upside down, clinging to the ledge with its sharp claws rocks, and admire your reflection in the lake.
-Oh, how beautiful I am, she sang shrilly, - what big donkey ears I have, what a beautiful round pig snout, I have the smallest pig eyes, and the biggest wings, the kind that even a crow doesn’t have, and teeth, oh, what teeth I have, long and short, sharp and blunt, and only I have them and no one else has them, and how good it is to have such tenacious claws, thanks to which I hang and I see my beauty! Because of her singing, mosquitoes shied away and butterflies flew out of the cave in fright, but Little Mouse did not notice this, she was so carried away by herself and her reflection.
And in the dense forest a huge striped wild cat, Cheshire, was wandering. It had long, sharp claws and huge yellow fangs that protruded from its foul-smelling mouth. The cat was hungry and angry. And then one day, wandering through the forest, with a loudly growling stomach, the poor hungry cat lifted his head and saw the entrance to a cave high in the rock. Oh, Cheshire thought, how good it is that I have sharp claws and can climb into the cave, perhaps a delicious lunch awaits me there!
The lizard Yasha was sleeping peacefully on the stones between the lake and the puddle, he was sleeping and knew that if he was in danger , he will quickly be able to run away and sneak into any crevice, because his sharp claws will always help him and will not allow him to stumble or slip even on the most slippery and wet stones. How good it is that he has them!
And so Cheshire climbed into the cave and saw the Little Mouse above him, and many bats hanging from the ceilings of the cave, he stood on his hind legs and began to reach up with his front paws, letting his claws in and out , while screaming heart-rendingly!
How interesting, thought Little Mouse, who was looking at Cheshire upside down, this monster has claws, and suddenly, suddenly, it doesn’t! The paw looks more beautiful without claws! What if I don't have claws? Then my paws will become the most beautiful in the world. And the Mouse began to gnaw on her claws, first on one paw, clinging to the ledge of the cave with the other, then on the other, it became more difficult to hang, and now there remained the last ungnawed claw on which the Mouse tried to hold on, and suddenly, unable to resist, the Mouse fell right on Cheshire’s head, The cat, out of surprise and fright, jumped to the side and fell straight into a dirty puddle with Mouse on his head.
Yasha, who was sleeping peacefully near the puddle, woke up, not understanding what was happening, why there was screaming, yelling, squealing and huge splashes of dirty water all around , flew up when the cat fell into a puddle, knocked him off the stone with his paw, landed softly on Cheshire’s side, grabbed his claws into his wet, foul-smelling fur and hung, entangled on it.
Mom Mouse and Dad Mouse fell down and picked up Mouse, who also grabbed the cat’s head with her last remaining claw, her sharp claws, how good it was that they weren’t chewed off, and flew up with her to the very top of the cave, leaving her there to dry on a rock ledge. The mouse was wet, dirty and scared, but despite this, curiosity took over, and she wanted to see what was going on below, but she couldn’t, because she realized that without the claws that she had gnawed, she would not be able to cling to the rock and look down .
Meanwhile, the bats began to fly over the frightened cat who did not understand anything, squealing and scratching his impudent face with their sharp claws, how good it is that they have them! Cheshirisch with a squeal and meow jumped out of the cave, and safely fell down, clinging with his claws to wild plants that had grown into the rock. And the lizard Yasha flew in the air from a cat jumping out of the cave and caught with its sharp claws a tree growing nearby.
Since then, the Cheshire cat, having received what he deserved, does not even look towards the cave, but looks for food in other places, but always thinks and remembers how good it is that he has such sharp claws, thanks to which he managed to jump out of the cave without crashing.
The lizard Yasha moved to live in the forest, thanks to flying on the Cheshire cat, he learned that he could climb and cling with his claws not only to stones, but also to trees. And Yasha saw what a wonderful world there could be outside the cave!
And the bat Mousetochka grew her even, beautifully sharpened claws, and NEVER gnaws them off anymore, but hangs on them, swinging over the lake, enjoying and admiring herself in its reflection, cautiously looking at the puddle, and screaming throughout the cave about its unearthly beauty, scaring away mosquitoes and butterflies! She finally realized that claws are an addition to her beauty, and also to her safety! It's so good that she has them!
Natalia Leonidovna Chernyakova
"Fairy tales are more than truth: not because they say that dragons exist, but because they say that dragons can be defeated."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Telling a fairy tale, you can understand what scenario I am living through, what my resources are, how to act in a situation that previously seemed insoluble... Improve relationships with others, deepen knowledge of yourself, get support from other group members, “quench” lack of communication.
A method that, in my opinion, allows you to work effectively is fairy tale therapy. It develops cognitive processes and contributes to the formation of a person’s self-awareness and reflection.
The attractiveness of this method is that it can be used not only by advanced specialists , but also those who are just starting their professional activities as a psychologist. Thanks to the fairy tale, a context is created in which the client’s inner world is transferred to the plot of the fairy tale. Processes are included aimed at activating potential personal structures.
Sometimes it is difficult for clients to talk about their problems are open, in a fairy tale everything is simple, your experiences seem to be taken outside and then you have the opportunity to look at them from the outside. With the help of a fairy tale, you can directly work with the unconscious, without running into defense mechanisms, but simply bypassing them using metaphor. An atmosphere of trust arises between the client and the therapist, a safety zone arises, which promotes the activation of cognitive activity and inclusion in the process.
Psychological fairy tale......
Develops and strengthens the client’s personality traits
Psychocorrectional fairy tale....
Corrects psychological problems
Psychotherapeutic fairy tale...
Restore self-confidence.
Meditative fairy tales...
Give the opportunity to relax.
Methods:
--read previously prepared fairy tales
-- we write a fairy tale and tell it
--we combine two areas of art therapy, namely: drawing and fairy tales, i.e. we draw a fairy tale.
--fairytale therapy with the help of dolls (puppet therapy)
--diagnosis of the client's problem.
Other Therapies:
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