THE PRINCIPLES OF USING GAME AND ANIMAL THERAPY OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS Cover Image

ПРИНЦИПЫ ИСПОЛЬЗОВАНИЯ ИГРОВОЙ И АНИМАЛОТЕРАПИИ У ДЕТЕЙ С ОСОБЫМИ ПОТРЕБНОСТЯМИ
THE PRINCIPLES OF USING GAME AND ANIMAL THERAPY OF CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Author(s): Boris MIHAILOV, Maksim Vodka, Tatiana Alieva, Inna VASHKITE
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Asociaţia Psihologilor practicieni din Moldova
Keywords: special needs; animal therapy; play therapy; hippotherapy

Summary/Abstract: The specifics of the animal-assisted play therapy of children with special needs mental retardation is focused on child-oriented relationship development, where the therapist came in the childworld, examining the thoughts, feelings, perceptions and ideas that are important for the child, and through the relationships that follow, provides emotional safe environment where children could overcome the problems, to cope with fear and anxiety, and to move forward in the direction of psychosocial health.Used on the basis of the Centre's psychosocial rehabilitation of children and adolescents “Feldman”, the Ecoparkanimal-assisted play therapy for children with special needs are sustained on the natural ways, with which children learn about themselves and their relationship with the world around them. This approach helps the child to develop respect for themselves and others, bodyawareness, self-esteem, as well as a wider recognition and enforcement of their own abilities.

  • Issue Year: 30/2017
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 70-79
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian, Russian