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2016
Eötvös
Loránd University Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education, Hungarian
Educators’ Association
2014.
Nov. 20-21
A
gyermekkultúra jelen(tőség)e
László Juhász – Anita Siklós
Institutionalized
Story Therapy – Abstract
Our
study presents a new health promotional tale-based game program for middle-group
and older-group preschoolers and its positive effects as regards mood, behavior
and health indicators. Anita Siklós worked with the developer of the program, László
Juhász, from October 2011 to mid-November carrying out research and therapeutic
practice at the Ezüstfenyő Art Kindergarten of Budapest.
The
head of the institution, Lászlóné Balogh, the children as well as the parents
all took part enthusiastically in the experiment. A total of 136 people took
part in the experiment (68 children and 68 parents), the final sample contains
data from 60 children and 60 parents. Three year old children were excluded from
the examined sample. The children’s average age was 5 and a half, (minimum of
4 years of age, a maximum of 6, deviation: 0.82).
Pre-research
yielded results on the efficacy of the program to be developed. The goal is to
implement a story therapy method, based on research uncovering the effects of
tale psychology, that can be used in the group setting of a kindergarten
and which is based on the two basic needs of preschool children, stories and
playing. Through these the program wishes to improve the children’s mood,
facilitate the immune system, develop their physical and mental health, decrease
the number of health related absences and increase the frequency of prosocial
behavior. We examined several hypotheses. We only published the results of a few
in the article. The program is structured in modules and contains a 1 day and a
3 day story and game therapy session. In order to attain the planned effect the
activities were sequenced in determined, controlled units of time and we have
briefly summarized one of each. During the study we examined three groups of
kindergarteners, two of which took part in the program while the third was free
of intervention. The first group (N=19) took part in the full program, the
second group (N=18) only took part in the 1 day module of the program and the
third group (N=23) did not take part in the program; they were the control group.
The motto of the first day’s module was ‘Please Help!‘, because it was
built on the act of helping others and providing social support. The three day
program has a variety of different psychological effects which we have discussed
in detail in our article. During the course of the study we used the SDQ (Strengths
and Difficulties Questionnaire), CARIFS (Canadian Acute Respiratory Infection
and Flu Scale) and a pictorial Likert Scale as well as our own questionnaire
along with the statistics on the children’s absences due to health issues. The
results show that in several cases when their data was compared with that of
control group after the programs the children who took part in the programs
displayed significantly higher indicators of mood, health (for example: cold,
flu, flu-like symptoms, upper respiratory complaints, coughing) and prosocial
behaviors. A further positive, unexpected effect of the
program was that it strengthened cooperation between parents and the institution
as well as within the families. The results encourage us to continue research as
the effects have been significant and we expect these effects to be generational,
extending from individuals to families, society and the national economy (for
example: stress leading to illness, production loss, decreasing health expenses,
in the long run, a physically and mentally healthier generation).
Key
words: cold, help, health promotion, emotion, game therapy, influenza, laughter,
positive suggestion, psychoneuroimmunology, social support, story therapy, tale
psychology.
The complete
study can be downloaded in Hungarian:
http://gyermekkultura.tok.elte.hu/docs/Gyermekkultura_ebook.pdf
(pp.
212-224 )
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Juhász László
Morality
in tales, myths and reality
The
interactive workshop is an extended version of the lecture presented at the 23rd
National Convention of the Hungarian Psychology Association in 2013. The main
aim is to prove that the content and structural changes in fairy tales reflect
the universal thinking of humanity and is key to its development. The changes in
morality and rules – whether individuals or the society abide by them or not
– serve the purposes of survival, development and wellbeing. The statements
will be supported by intercultural research findings, as well as direct and
indirect methods.
The
methodology of the lectures uses partly V. J. Propp’s morphological
methodology of analyzing Russian fairy tales, and new methods in psychology.
With the help of these, stories, such as the fall of humanity in the Bible, or
the evaluation scene in the Egyptian Book of the Dead will be reinterpreted. Two
popular Hungarian fairy tales will also be shown with regards to the various
forbidden motives appearing in other tales. As it will be concluded, morality,
handling of the rules, flouting these are keys to individual and societal
development.
Various
examples to support the statements above will include a short video showing
daily pedagogical routine, an ancient Papua fairy tale, overview of recent
Hungarian studies and an example from the Hungarian Constitution. Following
these, participants can explore their moral behavior and preference towards
rules and will discuss how their own self-esteem and development is dependent on
their preferences.
Key
words: Constitution, morality, development, self-esteem, free will
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2017
(video)
Hungarian
Psychological Society’s
XXVIth
National Scientific Assembly
University
of Szeged
1-3. June, 2017.
Story
hero method, story diagnostic and
therapy
method ®
The
90-minute, interactive theoretical and practical workshop has as its goal a
cooperation with the audience, using their own experiences in order to present
the projective method which has been under development by the author since 2005.
Using the instructions consisting of nine sentences, the subjects being examined
prepare their own stories. The wide range of diagnostic possibilities are
based on one of the tools of narrative psychology, on an analysis of the
contents and common themes. In the course of the analysis the three
jointly analyzed focus stories, the students become familiar with analyzing
characters, attributes, and needs, analyzing the content or concept of the
symptom- or problem-centric stories, together with the therapy these examples
suggest. The workshop ends with a video, which shows how the method was
used to help a mother of several children find closure to her chronic mourning
which had lasted twenty years. The recommended maximum attendance is 25
people. Keywords: focus stories, diagnostic, narratives, problem-centred,
projective therapy, symptom-oriented, therapy.
2nd
conference on early child age cognition development
Eötvös
Loránd University Faculty of Primary and Pre-School Education, Hungarian
Educators’ Association, Móra Publishing House
1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A
24. May, 2017.
Programme
Magical
cognition
Appetizer from the lecture’s abstract
"The
lecture combined with an interactive, theoretical and practical methodological
presentation – without the requirement of completeness – introduces the
possible connection of magic tales and certain rhyme-tales (e.g. chain tales),
their cognitive and memory processes, memory organizational characteristics,
strategies from the early child age to end of pre-school age. "
"What
could be the reason that the conclusion of our fairytale listening period
universally ends at an identical age, around the age of 11-12?"
"The
theoretical part is concluded by a short practical presentation based on the
lessons learned from an experiment conducted on children in the 1980s on several
continents, in which the presenter illustrates a culture independent, fairytale
based memory organizational strategy, with the assistance of the audience, the
psychological and methodological preparation studies of which are commencing in
this autumn, in the fairytale workshop of Károli Gáspár University Institute
of Psychology."
Key
words: cognition, chain tale, fairytale, magic tale, memory organization,
pre-operational period, Piaget
Pszichoterápia
folyóirat
(Journal
of Psychotherapy)
13th
conference.
Psychotherapy and the effect of counseling
MOM Cultural Centre
12-13. May, 2017.
Programme
Story
hero method, story diagnostic and
therapy
method ®
short
introduction together with discussion
A
projective method that has been under continuous development since 2005, using
stories, narrative psychology, psychoanalysis, art therapy, and
multidisciplinary results. The
subjects being examined independently write stories using the nine sentences,
using instructions typical for the projective tests.
Using the big 30 personality test, the stories are analyzed for their
content and frequency. Statistical
test results for comfortable small-scale research are used to come to research
conclusions, and the case studies shown prove the method’s viability as a
diagnostic device. Using
professional training and practice, the narratives are analyzed and broken down,
by both professionals and anyone willing to learn the method, which can be
learned in a brief time. The presentation describes the types of personalities,
attributes, and archetypes and their relationships, and how to analyze these. (For
example problem- or symptom-centric
stories’ content, conceptual determination, its diagnosis, the relationship
with the latter to the contemporary clinical– DSM-IV, DSM-5 – diagnostic
system, which can be used to increase the number of measured variables of the
method in accordance with the mental state corresponding to various types of
mental conditions.) The end of the presentation is a detailed case study, and a
video, which shows the relationship of this therapy to other types of therapy.
One of the limitations of the method is age (recommended from the age of
7 and up), which can be reduced if the appropriate methodological and ethical
rules are followed. Further, various
circumstances limit the ability to control the conditions under which the
stories were written, the difficulty of this is shown, and representative
samples (healthy or pathological), as well as the lack of national
standardization, validation, and reliability investigations. A long-term
objective is to overcome these barriers.
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