TTHE THERAPEUTIC FAIRYTALE. A STRATEGIC CHOICE FOR A PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELOR

Abstract

The strategies employed by psychological counselors are meant to allow the latter professional group to establish rapport with the people in difficulty, as well as to solve problematic situations. Therefore, the current article focuses on the role of the therapeutic fairytale in enabling the target of the counseling process to learn, accept, appreciate, and understand oneself. Its accessibility and credibility scores from the unofficial list of psychotherapeutic methods and techniques applied by a counselor make the therapeutic fairytale a proper instrument not only for working with children, but also with adults. In this respect, given the “moral profit” yielded by this technique, the author of this article views and recommends the choice of the therapeutic fairytale as a strategic one.

Keywords

• psychological counseling
• therapeutic fairytale
• counselling strategies