THE THERAPEUTIC FAIRYTALE. A STRATEGIC CHOICE FOR A PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELOR
The strategies employed by psychological counselors are meant to allow the latterprofessional group to establish rapport with the people in diffi culty, as well as to solveproblematic situations. Therefore, the current article focuses on the role of the therapeuticfairytale in enabling the target of the counseling process to learn, accept, appreciate,and understand oneself. Its accessibility and credibility scores from the unoffi cial list ofpsychotherapeutic methods and techniques applied by a counselor make the therapeuticfairytale a proper instrument not only for working with children, but also with adults. In thisrespect, given the “moral profi t” yielded by this technique, the author of this article viewsand recommends the choice of the therapeutic fairytale as a strategic one.
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