Therapeutic assumptions of Sandbox:
1. Pay attention to the relationship between the client and the therapist, which is called mother-child unity.
2. Create a free and protected space with the sandbox as the center.
3. This free and protected space allows visitors to exert their self-healing power.
4. Universal unconscious mental images.
5. The symbolic meaning of toys. The various arrangements of toys are bridges to the unconscious.
Applications of sandbox:
1. Sandbox games can cultivate children's imagination and creativity, and can be widely used in kindergartens, primary and secondary schools.
2. Sandbox games provide psychological counseling for children with psychological disorders such as ADHD, autism, phobias, social confusion, and somatization.
3. Adults playing sandbox games can improve their self-confidence, improve their personality, improve their interpersonal communication skills, effectively vent negative emotions, and release stress.
Sandtray operation process:
The elements of sandtray play therapy include a sandtray made in specific proportions, water source, molds, shelves for holding molds, as well as reasonable planning and play room A therapist with a compassionate heart. The role of the therapist is to create an atmosphere of freedom and safety. He must face the actions of the players in a way of "appreciation" rather than "judgment". He must follow the game and be consistent with it rather than intrusion.
Preparation process
(1) Preparation of materials
a. Selection of sand table
Sand table is usually placed on a low table superior. The size of the commonly used sand table is 7 meters long, 5.5 meters wide and 1.1 meters high. Its bottom and sides are painted blue and it is waterproof, requiring the sand inside to be about half the height of the box. The outside is painted a dark color or wood color, and the inside is painted blue. Generally, there must be at least two sandboxes in a sandbox game, one containing dry sand and one containing wet sand, allowing visitors to choose freely.
b. The layout of the game room
Scene setting
The first requirement for the game room is the design of "privacy", with easy cleaning and safety as the top priority. Mainly, with plastic floors, strong and low wooden furniture should also be installed on the walls to avoid dangers for young children when picking up toys and climbing.
Reasonable configuration of toys
Family and parenting toys - dolls, baby bottles, pots and bowls, food, etc.
Horror toys - rubber, sharks , snakes, spiders, springs, etc.
Attack toys - toy knives, guns, boxing bags, etc.
Creative toys - vehicles, medical kits, bags, tissues, etc.
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Toys to avoid: sharp, glass products, easy to break, expensive, need to install batteries, etc.
The process of sandtray play therapy
(1) Creating a sandtray The world
Introduce sand play to visitors: create a safe, protected and free space, and form a positive expectation; introduce the sand table, objects and sand play process to visitors, and have to deal with it yourself. In a position that makes the visitor feel comfortable, let the visitor know that there is no right or wrong way to do sand play, and finally ask him to notify you when he is finished.
(2) Experience and reconstruct the sand world
Experience: Visitors are encouraged to fully experience the sand world. You simply sit quietly while the client reflects on the scene, which is a time to deepen the experience.
Reconstruction: Inform visitors that they can keep the sand world as it is or make some changes; allow time for visitors to experience the changed sand world.
(3) Treatment
Browse the sandbox world: Ask the client to browse his sand world; pay attention to the client's verbal and non-verbal clues; do not touch the sandbox; encourage visits The person remains in the aroused emotion.
Therapeutic intervention: Ask the client some questions about the sand world and only reflect what the client is involved in; focus on the objects in the sand tray; choose to use therapeutic intervention methods, such as the Gestalt technique , psychodrama, mental imaging, regression, cognitive reshaping, art therapy and body awareness, more changes in the sand world