It is especially important to apply fairytale therapy for preschool children. After all, it is suitable for all children and can help overcome various problems in the life of the child.
What is the benefit of using fairy tale therapy for preschoolers?
Fairy tale therapy is excellent for both younger and senior preschoolers. Depending on the tasks, different forms of fairy-tale therapy are used. Its usefulness is as follows:
- helps to find a way out of the problem situation (complexity in the relationship with parents, peers, etc.);
- expands the child's knowledge about himself and the world around him;
- enriches the child's inner world with spiritual and moral values ;
- corrects the behavior and development of speech;
- stimulates psycho-physical and emotional development.
The essence of fairy-tale therapy is that a child or an adult makes up a fairy tale that reflects the difficulties that have arisen before the child, and then find ways to solve them.
Kinds of fairy tales for preschool children, which are used in fairy tale therapy
- folk or art fairy tale - provides spiritual and moral education, forms feelings of mutual assistance, empathy, duty, sympathy, etc .;
- teaching or developing a fairy tale - expands the child's knowledge about the surrounding space, the rules of behavior in different life situations;
- diagnostic tale - helps determine the nature of the child and reveals his attitude to the world;
- psychological tale - together with the hero the child learns to overcome his fears, failures and gain confidence in his abilities.
There are many ready-made examples of fairy tales for preschool children used in fairy tale therapy. But the greatest effectiveness will give a fairy tale, composed by parents.
Scheme of therapeutic tale
- selection of a hero (similar to a child);
- description of the hero's life;
- putting the hero in a problem situation (by analogy with the problem of the child);
- the hero is looking for and finding a way out.
With a fairy tale, you can continue to work after reading. There can be a lot of methods of joint fascinating work in fairy tale therapy.
Variants of work with a fairy tale
- draw, blind or express a fairy tale in the form of an application;
to make by own hands a doll on motives of a fairy tale; - make the setting of a fairy tale in the form of a table theater.
Councils for the organization of children's fairy tale therapy
- simple reading of a fairy tale - not yet therapy, you should beat a fairy tale, draw conclusions, etc .;
- do not explain the morals of the tale;
- more humor;
- the content of the tale should be clear to the child.
Fairy tale therapy is a wonderful, fascinating way that will help solve your children's age problems. Good luck on the fabulous path!