title: [Using fairy tales and narrative strategies with the help of a sandpit with children suffering from conduct disorders].
abstract: Our research, focussed on art therapy with primary school children, guided us to the footsteps of women pioneers in the research about children's psyche, like Anna Freud, Melanie Klein, Margaret Loewenfeld, Dora Kalff. We have been inspired by their very personal but nevertheless somehow similar type of research, to work with the children in a blue sand pit, where they could construct and play their personal fairy tales. Thus they share with us their momentary preoccupations, without being forced to talk about them. They are revealing their internal structures, and are integrating, by narration and projection on those figurines in action, their deficient defense mechanisms as well as their negative tendencies. Based on this approach, we expect that there will by an amelioration of their social skills, an enhancement of their intrinsic motivation, and a diminution of their conduct disorders. The analyze will be done by questionnaires and rating scales constructed especially for this research, as well as by sociograms, with the help of descriptive non parametric statistics.
authors.affiliation: DESS Université du Luxembourg. vienikonz@yahoo.de
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Konz
mesh_terms: D001155:Art Therapy; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D002666:Psychology, Child / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods*