Chance to become a puppet therapist

In the Center for Practical Psychology, under the patronage of the University “Ukraine”, a training group for puppet therapists begins to work. And so 6 training seminars at which methods of working with puppets will be worked out, master classes on creating puppets of various therapeutic purposes from ethnic puppets to puppet theater. The author’s training course on the topic “Puppet therapy as a method of psychological assistance to a person” developed by a psychologist of the highest qualification category, candidate of psychological sciences, professor of the Rivne Institute of the University “Ukraine” Nazarevich Victoria Vyacheslavovna, who has been working in the direction of art therapy for more than 15 years.
Number of teaching hours 60
Purpose: to form the basic skills of a psychologist in the process of psychological assistance by means of play therapy and puppet therapy.
Target audience: teachers, educators, doctors, psychologists, psychotherapists, social workers, social educators, game therapists, art therapists, students, parents.
1. A doll as an archetypal instrument of socialization and personality development. Activation of mental memory through puppet therapy techniques.
2. Features of the organization of the playing space for psychotherapeutic purposes. Rules for interaction with the client and dolls
3. Types of puppet therapy: finger theater, shadow theater, table puppet theater
4. Dolls for games – game modeling – dramatization in the process of psychological assistance
5. Creation of talisman dolls, helper dolls as the basis for the formation of a self-therapeutic space
6.Correction of psychological problems through the polarization of images of dolls
7. Correction of parent-family, children’s relations, through a doll – modeling of relations
8. The use of music therapy and the client’s plastic-dance experience as a form of psycho-correction with the help of puppets
9. Creation of dolls from plastic materials (clay, dough, plasticine) as a form from the response of sensations and the formation of creative expression.
10. Fairy tale therapy with the help of dolls and toys, creation of a therapeutic space, fantasies.
Training is conducted in interactive training groups, where basic theoretical knowledge is worked out, exercises, techniques and techniques are practically implemented. Client cases are being processed.