ART THERAPY AS PSYCHOTHERAPY IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND MINORS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW Cover Image

ART TERAPIJA KAO PSIHOTERAPIJA U RADU SA DJECOM I MALOLJETNICIMA U SUKOBU SA ZAKONOM
ART THERAPY AS PSYCHOTHERAPY IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN AND MINORS IN CONFLICT WITH THE LAW

Author(s): Vildana Pleh, Vahida Djedović
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Social psychology and group interaction, Behaviorism, Penology, Sociology of the arts, business, education
Published by: CENTAR MODERNIH ZNANJA
Keywords: children in conflict with the law; restorative justice; bibliotherapy; fairy tale; psychotherapy;

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses the importance of literary directions, literary genres and psychotherapy. Here it is shown how one bibliotherapy technique can help people who have a problem, ie. targeted reading of fairy tales through literary-theoretical directions is shown, which significantly contribute to the solution of the problem as well as help in self-discovery. Also, a way is shown to help people overcome their troubles by using characters or situations in fairy tales. The intention of comparing literary theory and psychotherapy is to emphasize the importance of cooperation of different disciplines in approaching the topic - analysis and usefulness of fairy tales based on different literary theory approaches, with special emphasis on therapeutic effects achieved by such reading. Art therapy is a form of work with children and minors who are in conflict with the law. Art therapy as prevention, as an intervention during the application or execution of an alternative measure, alternative sanction or criminal sanction of an institutional character. Carried by the idea of applying restorative justice programs is a large number of therapeutic programs that have entered into work with children and minors who are in a certain way in conflict with the law. One of them is bibliotherapy, whose "time is yet to come" because its promotion and application is expected. Modern methods that use a fairy tale for therapeutic purposes open up new aspects of the therapeutic effect of reading / listening. In these aspects, it is important to understand knowledge from the theory and practice of psychotherapy as well as literary theories and look at what happens in the psychotherapeutic process between clients and the content offered by the fairy tale, ie listeners and text in the reading / listening process. Just as literary genres in therapeutic practice have been neglected by the domestic professional population, the encounter between the practice of reading / listening and the practice of psychotherapy has been neglected within the national aspects of the social sciences and humanities. And it is precisely this space of insufficiently recognized and unexplored connection that opens up reception and interpretive possibilities for this work for the possible and real fruitful effects of their encounter.

  • Issue Year: VI/2021
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 443-452
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian