Fairytale Theraphy as a Method of Psychological Support of Families with a Problem Child

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https://doi.org/10.29038/2227-1376-2019-33-205-220

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fairy-tale therapy, psychological support, problem child, family, family functioning, family scenario, family rules

Abstract

The article focuses on the system of psychological assistance of a family with a problem child. In terms of represented research important is analysis of using the fairy-tale therapy as a constituent of psychological support of families with problem children of preschool and early school age. It is indicated that work on writing a fairy-tale with a family has diagnostic and psychotherapeutic importance. It is noted, that a fairy-tale helps to identify peculiarities and stereotypes of interaction and behavior; family rules and family scenario; family myths; life scenario; family and individual boundaries; family and life history. It has been proved, that positively affected positive dynamics by all empirical parameters is shown, that meaningfully determine the structure of psychotype profile of problem children after the conducted fairy-tale therapy. It has been revealed that the support program of using a fairy-tale became an important factor of qualitative transformation of the content, structurall and educational elements. The constructive transformation of protection strategy in education sphere of a child and effective correction of their non-constructive personality position has taken place. It was stated that in comparison with traditional program of psychological assistance, the introduction of fairy-tale therapy to the program of psychological support provided more effective correction of non-constructive personality attitude of problem children parents, as well as a significantly higher degree of development of those properties of their personality structure, which lie in the basis of constructive patterns of personality functioning. The results of the comparative analysis of the effectiveness of formational measures in relation to experimental and control groups by the criterion «level of development of indicators of family functioning» are generalized, which state that in comparison with the traditional technology of psychological assistance, the introduction of fairy-tale therapy into the program of psychological support has provided problem children parents with a higher degree of the development of effective mechanisms of personality and familial functioning, as well as more stable formed level of personality attitude to constructive solution of actual problems.

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2019-06-09

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Mushkevych, M. (2019). Fairytale Theraphy as a Method of Psychological Support of Families with a Problem Child. Psychological Prospects Journal, 33, 205-220. https://doi.org/10.29038/2227-1376-2019-33-205-220