POSITIVE PSYCHOTHERAPY AND MGS METHODOLOGY IN THE ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF PSYCHOSOCIAL AND TRADITIONAL GAMES AS ADDITIONAL TOOLS OF GROUP THERAPY, COUNSELING AND COACHING OF CHILDREN WHO EXPERIENCED WAR
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.32782/psyspu/2023.1.3Keywords:
positive psychotherapy, five-step model of positive psychotherapy (PPT), MGS methodology (movement, play, sport), crisis psychology, crisis pedagogy, stressful military factors and symptoms, psychosocial and traditional game, group psychotherapyAbstract
The article highlights the statistical data of the demographic situation of internally and externally displaced Ukrainians as a result of military operations and casualties. An analysis of the consequences of military actions and the traumatic experience of children in war conditions is presented. The possibilities of integrating the experience of European psychological and psychotherapeutic practice into the use of Ukrainian psychologists in working with the traumatic experience of children are analyzed. E. Parruca’s methodology of combining the tools of positive psychotherapy (PPT) and MGS (movement, play, sports) in the organization and conduct of psychosocial and traditional games as additional tools of group therapy, counseling and coaching of children who have encountered war is substantiated. The mechanisms of identifying actual, internal and basic conflicts and further development of primary and secondary abilities in the approach of positive psychotherapy are disclosed. The methodology proposed by E. Parruca for combining the 5-step model of positive psychotherapy counseling and the MGS methodology in group work with children is described. The stages of the 5-step model of PPT counseling are characterized: observation and distancing, inventorying, situational encouragement, verbalization, expansion of goals and stages according to the MGS methodology: warm-up, main part, relaxation, final feedback.
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