Fairy Tale Therapy Research Articles

Сказкотерапия как поле междисциплинарного взаимодействия исследователей (по итогам состоявшейся в Российской государственной библиотеке дискуссии)

<p>On June 26, 2024, as part of the program of the XIII International Summer School “Evolution of Institutions for Self-Organization and Charity”, the Russian State Library for Young Adults held a discussion on "How to Form Positive Attitudes towards Philanthropy and Mutual Assistance?", which was attended by civil society researchers from Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Belarus, Romania and the United Arab Emirates. The lively discussion focused on the methodology for using fairy tale therapy as a specific area of practical psychology to solve many social and cultural problems. In particular, the following question was highlighted: How fairy tales help develop social empathy, promote philanthropy in society and promote unity among people, and form attitudes towards charity and mutual assistance.</p>

Projective Techniques in Dealing with Existential Frustration

A modern man is in conditions in which their basic needs are fulfilled, therefore the aspirations of the individual are more aimed at finding the meaning of life and happiness. In transitional periods of society, in times of crisis, there is a situation where old meanings are lost and there is a need to search for new ones. More and more people are faced with the task of finding their meaning and understanding what is needed to feel satisfied with life. These reflections are among the existential. The article analyzes the term life satisfaction and explores the concepts of existential crisis and existential frustration. The practical part describes one of the projective techniques (fairytale therapy) as a tool for working with existential difficulties.

Формирование эмоционального благополучия младших школьников через сказкотерапию

The psychological and emotional well-being of children is one of the most discussed problems in modern scientific research. In studies of domestic psychologists, it was found that 37% of children have increased and 16% of children have high general school anxiety. Studying at school, worries about grades and performance are the main reason for increased anxiety among schoolchildren. One of the conditions for the development of a child’s personality is emotional well-being, which can be developed through fairy tale therapy. The fairy tale therapy method allows for the development of the emotional well-being of children, since it uses the metaphorical resources of fairy tales and creates conditions for maintaining a stable emotional-positive state and life satisfaction. The paper sets out to experimentally test the effectiveness of using fairy tale therapy in the formation of the emotional well-being of schoolchildren. The diagnostics selected were: 1) test tasks “The Magical Land of Feelings” (authors: T.D. Zinkevich-Evstigneeva, T.M. Grabenko, D.A. Frolov); 2) SAN test questionnaire (V.A. Doskin’s method). A fairytale therapy program “My Emotions” was created to develop the emotional well-being of elementary school students. The study showed a positive growth trend in the number of children in the experimental group demonstrating emotional well-being, a sense of joy, motivation to study and communicate with peers. The developed program for fairy tale therapy “My Emotions” can be used by primary school teachers to develop the emotional well-being of children in extracurricular activities, and for the professional training of teachers and psychologists.

Fairy-tale therapy as a means of developing communication skills of preschool children

Relevance. At the present stage of the search for new forms and methods of teaching, the development and education of children are one of the main tasks of preschool pedagogy. The relevance of the study is determined by the importance of fairy tales in the development of preschoolers' speech. Purpose. The purpose of the study is to include valuable levels of fairy tales in the communicative and cultural development of preschool children. Research objectives: to develop the ability to emotionally react to imaginary events; to strengthen a conscious approach to the rules of personal safety; to use movements of expression. Methodology. The following methods and approaches were used in the study: activity approach, personal approach, method of pedagogical research, system approach. Results. The presented results demonstrate that a systematic and scientifically based approach to conducting specially organised classes using fairy tales develops expressiveness, accuracy of speech, grammatical correctness, lexical completeness and semantic organisation, cognitive data, etc. Conclusions. Thus, the study confirms the hypothesis that a fairy tale can be an effective means of developing the speech of younger schoolchildren in educational activities, as well as another means of ensuring the attitude to the student as a person. This study has prospects for further research on the problems of the influence of fairy tales as a metaphorical text on the development of tolerance in primary school children, as well as studying the possibility of the phenomenon of negative semantic resonance. Keywords: fairy tale therapy; preschool children; pedagogical activity; psychological training; personality development

Development of Speech Communication of Senior Preschool Children: Application of Correctional and Developmental Pedagogical Technologies in Moderate and Severe Mental Retardation

Introduction. The article discusses correctional-developmental pedagogical technologies for the development of speech communication through the prism of speech pathology correction in preschool children with severe and moderate mental retardation. The following methods are described: fairy tale therapy, theatrical activities, mnemotechniques, logorhythmics, and computer technologies.Purpose. The study examines the components of speech communication in preschool-aged children with moderate and severe mental retardation using pedagogical technologies such as logorhythmics, theatrical activities, and computer technologies.Materials and Methods. A study was conducted involving 10 preschool-aged children with moderate and severe mental retardation attending a combined-type kindergarten. The study aimed to assess the development of the motivational, semantic, linguistic, and sensorimotor components of speech communication. Pedagogical technologies such as logorhythmics, theatrical activities, and computer technologies (developing games) were used to evaluate the manifestation of speech communication components in preschool-aged children with moderate and severe mental retardation.Results. The study involved 10 children (6 boys and 4 girls) aged 5–6 years with severe or moderate mental retardation. A confirmatory experiment was conducted to assess the semantic, linguistic, sensorimotor, and motivational components of speech communication in this group of manifestation. The study allowed us to determine that the most preserved components of speech communication in the participants of the experiment are sensorimotor and motivational, while the semantic and linguistic components of speech communication are poorly developed.Discussion. The data obtained in our study is in line with the findings of other researchers who have who have used the information and communication technologies in correctional speech therapy. The authors also emphasize the role of dialogic communication between a child and a teacher in speech development, which we have implemented at all stages of the confirmatory experiment. The results obtained are applied in correctional and developmental work.

ВОССТАНОВЛЕНИЕ ПОСЛЕ ПСИХОЭМОЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ НАРУШЕНИЙ ДЕТЕЙ И ПОДРОСТКОВ В СВЯЗИ С ОНКОПРОЦЕССОМ С ПОМОЩЬЮ ЭЛЕМЕНТОВ АРТ-ТЕРАПИИ

The need to study the influence of art therapy techniques, in particular fairy tale therapy, game therapy, drawing and creativity therapy on the psycho-emotional state of children and adolescents with cancer is obvious due to the prevalence of mental disorders at the stage of hospitalization. Purpose: to analyze the literature to study the impact of art therapy elements on the psycho-emotional state of children and adolescents with cancer during treatment. General information. Children undergoing treatment for cancer often have psycho-emotional disorders such as depression, anxiety and report concerns about hair loss, nausea and fatigue, lower ability to perform physical activities, and expectations of dissatisfaction with life in the future. Negative self-perception of body image leads to low self-esteem and affects the ability to form healthy relationships with peers. Neurocognitive dysfunction (decreased speed of information processing, attention, memory) leads to low academic and professional success, poor self-esteem and behavioral or emotional disorders. Art therapy techniques such as fairy tale therapy, game therapy, drawing and creativity therapy effectively influence the psycho-emotional status of patients, help children get rid of painful feelings and cope with their anxiety, help improve well-being, relieve pain, etc. Psychotherapy provided to cancer patients in childhood in a timely manner will help improve the psycho-emotional state associated with the disease and treatment. The techniques are universal and complement each other if necessary; they can be successfully used in the treatment of many psychological disorders, as well as integrated and combined with other therapeutic approaches (body-oriented approach, music therapy, dance-movement method, etc.).

Использование элементов сказкотерапии и здоровьесберегающих технологий на логопедических занятиях

The article describes the principle of fairy tale therapy in speech therapy classes. The author provide examples of exercises.

STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY IN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

STUDY OF BEHAVIORAL MODELS OF PERSONALITY IN UKRAINIAN AND RUSSIAN FAIRY TALES

МЕЖДИСЦИПЛИНАРНЫЙ АСПЕКТ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ СКАЗКИ

The article examines a number of concepts related to the fairy tale, provides an overview of the scientific literature in the field of socio-humanitarian sciences, for which humanitarian knowledge, a synergetic approach, and a philosophical sound are important. The concept of "fairy-tale studies", which studies fairy tales as a genre of folk literature and folklore, is revealed. The interpretation of the concept of "fairy tale therapy" is given, its value is emphasized, which consists in "healing the soul", expanding knowledge about life, its laws and rules, combining one's life experience with folk wisdom reflected in fairy tales. The article describes the methods of using fairy tales as a tool of education and therapy, in connection with which the new possibilities of fairy-tale therapy in modern society are considered in detail. The work has theoretical and practical significance.

PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HABILITATION AND REHABILITATION OF CHILDREN FROM CHILDREN’S HOMES WITH NEURODEVELOPMENTAL DELAY OF PSYCHOSOCIAL GENESIS

Background. Psycho-emotional stress in institutionalized children leads to significant tension in regulatory systems. Justification for using a complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures aimed at reducing the stress factor and cre-ating conditions for “catch-up” development is an urgent problem. The aim of the study. To create and to test the effectiveness of a complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures aimed at reducing deprivation pressure and environmental stress. Material and methods. The study included 114 children from children’s homes of Donetsk and Makeevka and 44 chil-dren from families aged 3 to 7 years. The complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures included optimization of the daily routine, conditioning exercises, music, toy and fairy tale therapy, sessions of individual play and play in small groups of 2–3 people in a separate playroom, phototherapy with bright solar spectrum lamps, enriched sensory envi-ronment, increased physical activity, differentiated drug support with L-carnitine, glycine, hopantenic acid, magnesium and pyridoxine complex. Neuropsychic development was studied using the Denver Screening Test and the Formalized Card for the Study of Psychoneurological Functions according to I.A. Skvortsov and N.A. Ermolenko. The functions of regulatory systems were assessed by the level of cortisol and melatonin in saliva, and brain-derived neurotrophic factor in blood serum. Conclusion. A comparison of the results of assessing the parameters of neuropsychic development confirmed the effec-tiveness of the proposed complex of habilitation and rehabilitation measures. Restoration of the function of regulatory systems was confirmed by normalization of the rhythms of cortisol and melatonin synthesis, as well as by a significant (3-fold) increase in the content of brain-derived neurotrophic factor in the blood serum in children of the main group.

Witches in Fairy Tales and their Use in Therapy. Interview with Gréta Vaskor

Fairy tales (and other narratives) are used as therapeutic tools in therapy. Stories about witches and magic, including spells, mobilize the emotions and the mind of the patient and help them providing patterns and suggesting solutions. This interview is a dialog between an anthropologist specialized in the anthropology of witchcraft and magic and a psychotherapist trained in family and individual therapy using fairy tale therapy in combination with other methods.

Artistic creativity as a resource in the work of the psychological support group of Kharkiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama during wartime

"Abstract The article describes the model of crisis psychological help based on the Gestalt approach, which the Kharkiv Institute of Gestalt and Psychodrama (KhIGIP, Ukraine) used in the work of the group of psychological support during the first six months of the war, which the Russian Federation unleashed in Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The main attention is paid to analysing the experience of using fairy-tale therapy (a method of artistic creation) within the framework of the work of this group. The authors highlight a number of resource possibilities of fairy-tale therapy as a tool of the Gestalt approach in group work: gaining a sense of greater control over the situation through the creation of a narrative; achieving greater integrity through awareness and integration of one's own projections; restoring the temporal continuity of the psychological field through the creation of a story containing a beginning, middle and end; improving the psycho-emotional state through the expression of feelings, etc. Keywords Gestalt approach, psychological support group, crisis intervention, war, fairy-tale therapy. "

Fairy tale therapy, as an anxiety reducer for primary school children

The decline in children's health in Ukraine is significantly influenced by several factors, including economic instability in the country, environmental pollution, inadequate nutrition, and a lack of healthcare interventions. Lifestyle plays a particularly crucial role.
 Health is an integral aspect of an individual's well-being and directly impacts their quality of life. Preserving and enhancing the health of students, increasing their levels of physical activity, and fostering the development and improvement of fundamental physical qualities are the primary objectives of physical education for elementary school children. These objectives align with the priority goals of our society. To achieve effective and multifaceted improvements in the development of elementary school children, health-enhancing, pedagogical, and educational tasks must be addressed comprehensively. Modern technologies for leveling anxiety and for quality life of younger schoolchildren began to use fairy tale therapy. The essence of fairy-tale therapy is to create a special mental space in which the child's fantasies become similar to reality and contribute to overcoming his fears and complexes. On the example of positive characters, the child learns to act correctly; negative heroes of fairy tales point out to her patterns of inappropriate behavior. This therapeutic technique examines various aspects of fairy tales, including symbolism, morals, allegories, and character identification, with the goal of supporting clients in developing, understanding their own emotions and experiences, and changing their perception of the world. The mechanisms of the impact of fairy tales on individuals are outlined as follows: fairy tales depict profound emotional crises experienced by individuals; they exert their influence on an unconscious level and tri gger adaptive mechanisms to assist in coping with stress; fairy tales teach children how to effectively conquer their fears, enabling them to preserve their psychological well-being.

Art Therapy as an Effective Means of Overcoming Stress: Neurophysiological Features

The article presents the results of research into the use of the most effective means to overcome stress in children and adults, in particular, the use of art therapy. The relevance of the study is determined by the need to build stress resistance in crisis situations, which are a fairly common phenomenon in the context of modern problems. The study defined the essence of the concepts of "fear", "anxiety" and "art therapy". Aspects related to the impact of stress on children, its causes, and the main trends in overcoming it were formed. The work describes art therapy as one of the most effective methods of preventing stress and building stress resistance. The results of the study confirm the hypothesis regarding the use of art therapy as a method of overcoming stress and at the same time as prevention. The most effective means of overcoming stress have been determined, in particular fairy-tale therapy, art therapy, etc. The causes of stress as neurophysiological features in a child were also investigated. The prerequisites and factors of stressful situations are characterized. Methods of synthesis, analysis, research, scientific and descriptive methods were used to ensure an effective research result. The research became the basis for determining ways to overcome stress, for the formation of effective means of diagnosis and psychocorrection. To determine effective approaches to overcoming stress, scientific research on the problem was analyzed and features were determined. The results of the study became the basis for establishing the features of stress in crisis conditions, analyzing the most effective methods of overcoming stress, describing neurophysiological factors that cause stress, and characterizing art therapy as the most effective method of overcoming stress. The article is the result of research and analysis of scientific intelligence on the specified problem.

Artistic interpretation of real traumatic events in Maria Ogneva’s play “Following the White Rabbit”

The article considers the documentary and fictional components of M. Ogneva’s play “Following the White Rabbit”, which raises the theme of the trauma experienced in the past. The play is based on real events related to the violent death of two teenage girls. In this play, the tragic event is taken out of the storyline and the attention is focused on the understanding of the tragedy by a female friend and the mothers of the girls. The article studies the techniques used by the author to create the fictional world of the play: allegory, allusion, a combination of real and fantasy elements, division and montage, work with documentary materials of a judicial practice, the “verbatim” technique, different types of discourse and different “points of view” to describe one and the same event. As a result of the analysis, we conclude that the strategy used by the author is comparable to a fairy tale therapy (the method of psycho-correctional work): the therapeutic effect is achieved by pronouncing the traumatic experience in the presence of the audience, by the characters’ searches for various options for getting out of the spiritual crisis, by launching the process of continuous moral and ethical self-identification at the viewer’s level, i.e. by correlating the characters’ experience with their own destiny.

Fairy tale therapy for children of war

The article highlights the possibilities of using fairy-tale therapy by parents, legal guardians, socionomic sphere specialists in the process of providing support and assistance to children during the war. The purpose of the article is to define the content of fairy-tale therapy and create an author’s fairy tale, which is focused on pedagogical and psychological assistance to children affected by military operations. To achieve the goal, mainly theoretical research methods were applied: study, analysis and generalization of special psychological and pedagogical literature in order to identify the investigated problem. It is emphasized that a therapeutic fairy tale heals a person’s soul, as it carries out powerful psychological work at the subconscious level. In order for the fairy-tale narrative to acquire a therapeutic character, it must reflect the child’s problem. The process of creating an author’s therapeutic fairy tale helps relieve tension in stressful situations, contributes to the constructive experience of emotions, develops communication skills, imagination, and distracts from difficult feelings. It was concluded that fairy-tale therapy is a unique method of treatment of mental health disorders caused by military actions, as children find echoes of inner experiences from their own lives in fairy tales.

Dealing with the Sexual Component of Women's Life Script Through a Fairy Tale Metaphor

This article discusses the basic components of a life script in relation to the sexual sphere of life and proposes an algorithm for writing a fairy tale that reflects a female sexual script, and also pays attention to the most important points for understanding a sexual script when analyzing a client's fairy tale metaphor. Taking into account the specifics of the topic, the author suggests an approach that allows bypassing the client's resistance: integration of art-therapeutic technigues (fairy tale therapy, work with metaphorical associative cards) and transactional-analytical structure. The article offers reflections on working with the sexual sphere through exploring images, as well as on the formation of a fairy-tale metaphor, and provides an algorithm for writing a fairy tale reflecting a female sexual life script, and also pays attention to the most important points for understanding the sexual life script when analyzing a client's fairy-tale metaphor

Social therapy as a technology of social work with children from families in difficult life situations

A difficult life situation is a situation that means the experiences of people who find themselves in circumstances that seriously affect their well-being, the safety of life, and from which they are not always able to get out on their own. Children who find themselves in a difficult life situation are especially in need of help. The paper identifies the most significant factors affecting family well-being, as a result of which children may have a difficult life situation: poor financial conditions in the family, loss of connection with the labor market, intra-family conflicts, an unfavorable psychological atmosphere in the family, cruel treatment in the family, etc. The essence of social therapy as a specific technology of social work is that it is based on the idea of «treatment», i.e. achieving the highest possible level of human social health, primarily the normal functioning and adaptation of persons with physical and psychological pathology. Social therapy includes various methods aimed at achieving social well-being by family members, including children. It can be group and individual one. Examples of social therapy methods are bibliotherapy, fairy tale therapy, music therapy, occupational therapy, cinema therapy, sandplay therapy, etc.

ПРИКАЗКАТА КАТО СРЕДСТВО ЗА ПРЕОДОЛЯВАНЕ НА ПОВЕДЕНЧЕСКИ НАРУШЕНИЯ ПРИ УЧЕНИЦИ В НАЧАЛЕН ЕТАП

The fairy tale is a literary form with an extremely wide application in the educational process. In elementary school students, the fairy tale forms literary competences and is an important tool in artistic education. In the present report, the attention is focused on a less studied aspect – the educational influence of the fairy tale on behavioral disorders in elementary school students. The report briefly analyzes the difference between fairy tale therapy and the application of fairy tales in art pedagogy. Different art-pedagogical techniques were analyzed, in which the magical tale is used as a means to overcome behavioral disorders in elementary school students.

PSYCHOCORRECTION IN PRESCHOOL CHILDREN WITH PRENEUROTIC SYMPTOMS DURING TIMES OF WAR: A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS

This scientific abstract explores the features of psychocorrection in preschool children exhibiting preneurotic symptoms in the context of war. By analyzing modern scientific trends and research conducted during times of acute stress and distress caused by war in Ukraine, the practical aspects of psychological and corrective work with preschool-aged children are considered and analyzed. Due to the ongoing war, both adults and children face daily life-and-death situations, which disrupt their psychological balance and subject them to cruel uncertainty. As a result, the psychological well-being of children is deeply affected, leading to a high incidence of neurotic states, including neuropsychological disorders, heightened anxiety, fear, lack of confidence, and excessive vulnerability, among others. It is observed that the emergence of neuroses in such situations is often preceded by preneurotic states, which later develop into neurotic reactions and disorders. Psychological correction is identified as a primary approach in working with children exhibiting preneurotic tendencies. Psychological correction refers to a form of psychological intervention aimed at creating optimal conditions for the child's psychological development and providing specialized psychological support. The abstract emphasizes that the most accessible types of psychological and corrective work with preschool children are behavioral, emotional, and cognitive methods. These approaches facilitate conflict resolution and help release tension on a subconscious level. Furthermore, the research highlights effective and modern approaches to psychological correction of preschool children in war conditions through various forms of art therapy. The abstract categorizes the following methods of art therapy as highly efficient and effective in modern psychological correction: isotherapy (therapeutic impact through art), fairy tale therapy (using fairy tales as a therapeutic tool), music therapy (utilizing music and choreographic movements), game therapy (organized game activities), doll therapy, and canister therapy, among others. Art therapy is described as a method of uncovering a child's concerns, relieving negative emotional states, and allowing them to identify their unconscious worries and overcome their destructive impacts through the natural state of play and art. Different forms of art therapy provide conditions for individuals to experience success in various activities, enabling them to tap into their psychic potential for stress management. The abstract concludes by highlighting the importance of further research and work in the field of psychocorrection for preschool children with preneurotic symptoms.