Vaikų iš socialinės rizikos šeimų vidinių išgyvenimų raiška jų sukurtose pasakose
Reflections of Inner Experience of Children from Social Rink Families Presented in Tales Created by Children

Summary/Abstract: Lithuanian comprehensive schools – educators lack knowledge how to react to a child’s emotional disorders, inability to communicate and other problems. Therefore educational theory and practice of today face a relevant problem how in today’s rapidly changing world to understand the reasons of a child’s negative emotions, support his spiritual health and help him to orient in his feelings. Psychologists have noticed that while creating a tale a person portrays his/her outer and inner world, therefore we can judge about the writer’s emotional state, worrying problems and imagined opportunities of their solution from created texts. Relying on tales created by children from social risk families, this article interprets the relation between the tale content with emotional experiences of the author; it also supposes how tales can be used correcting of a child’s individual features. 11 children aged 8–14 from Šiauliai day centre participated in the survey. Children were from families with little income and living on social benefits as well as from incomplete families where even minimal existential needs of a child are not satisfied and where drink and violation occur. Due to their social status these children experience much humiliation from their peers in schools, and because of their inability to communicate they usually are in low spirits, close, sad, or, on the contrary, tend to conflicts, aggression, and often wreak their fury on other children and teachers. Tales created by children attending the day centre had been collected for a half year, and the main themes and the content of those tales were compared to those by their peers who live in families with favourable conditions for living and personal development. Comparing the pictures of the main character (as psychologists state, the author identifies with the main character), the topics and the energy field of the tale created by the children from the day centre and from families with favourable conditions for living and personal development, we have identified that • One of the characteristics of the tales created by children from the day centre is a repeated theme of unsatisfied physiological and safety needs. • The main character of the tale is unenterprising; he does not only find but also does not seek for problem solution, abides to the present situation and tends to conflicts. • Tales by most children from families without favourable living conditions end not well, and it gives a message about the author’s unstable emotional state or even depression.

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