Sandplay Therapy. Explained in simpler terms.
Ukrainian therapists describe how sandplay therapy works.
sand therapy: a direction of art therapy that arose within the framework of analytical psychology. The author of this method considers the main principle to be “creating a free and protected space” in which the client is a child or an adult - can express and explore his world, turning his experience and his experiences into visible and tangible images. The method allows you to activate your imagination and express the images that arise in this case in a specific form. The main tool is a sandbox and sand itself. Additional tools are water and a set of miniature figurines. Using a sandbox, the client is invited to present his problem, its vision, participants, images associated with the problem, symbolically realize desires that arise during therapy, consider and analyze the plot, the way the problem is presented, selected materials, endow the figurines with feelings, fantasize about what is happening, describe feelings evoked by working with sand and other materials, etc. Much attention is paid to both the forms and the sensory content of the images presented in the form of forms. In this case, the therapist relies on the experiences presented by the client, the group response (working in a group) and his own feelings. Sand therapy used to work with children, adults and people with indications for art therapy. Conducted both individually and in groups. For the purpose of psychological correction, therapy and diagnosis. Work takes place in the following directions: directly with the problem that the client has suffered; in achieving overall goals of therapy; sometimes - with a given topic.
Oksana Ivanovna Klimenko
sand therapy in the work of a psychologist with children:
Marianna Vladimirovna Mozgovaya
There is no more natural way of child development than playing in the sandbox. And if this also takes place in a playful form under supervision psychologist? - This is an ideal option for spending time and developing a child.
Sand therapy for children can be aimed at developing and/or correcting the difficulties they encounter in their life path. You can project your inner state onto the sand, you can play out your conflicts and cope with fears, try on social roles and feel like a creator of the world.
What other advantages of sand therapy?
- promotes the development of individual creative potential, creativity, imagination and imagination;
- increases the child’s self-esteem, self-acceptance, faith in himself and his strengths;
- promotes the development of fine motor skills, develops tactile sensations, self-reflection;
- teaches how to create with one’s own hands;
- develops attentiveness, perseverance, a sense of control;
- helps to cope with internal conflict, aggression, fears, relieves anxiety.
Sand therapy also promotes the development of the right hemisphere of the brain, which is responsible for creative, visual, figurative, deductive thinking. It is responsible for the ability to create and create, dream and compose, as well as the emotional sphere. The left hemisphere is responsible for analytical thinking, speech centers are located in it and the analysis of information coming to the child passes through it.
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