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FAIRY TALE
FAIRY TALE
is a type of short story that typically features folkloric fantasy characters and usually magic or enchantments.
Fairy tales are a subgenre of folk tales and almost always involve some element of magic and good triumphing over evil.
Understand cause and effect and the laws existing in the world. Enables to avoid the childs opposition and the intention to do everything the other way round.
The psychologists (Bettelheim, 1976; Oklender, 1997; Zinkevic-Jevstignejeva, 1998, et al.) assert that the uniqueness of the fairy-tales has been related not only with the concepts of fantasy and fiction but with the situation in which lifelike problems and obstacles are discussed.
Fairy-tales awaken the subconscious of a child, help to form his sense of self-independence and gives spiritual equilibrium, and the completeness of psychical life.
Thinking metaphorically the essence of "social curing" with the use of fairy-tales is the victory of the good over the bad. (Oklender, 1997; Zinkevic-Jevstignejeva, 1998)
Fairytale therapy
It is important to create an environment which is open to questions and considerations, but also an atmosphere of emotional closeness so people do not feel alone during the theraphy.
These come from the possibility to encourage: imagination and fantasy development of moral values acquisition of communication and interactional skills acquisition of fundamental emotional skills, such as recognition and management of interior states in relation to context and events.
Life isn't a fairytale but we can make it like a fairytale Lucy 'Aisy