Keyword: «fairy tale therapy in correction of children's fears»

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of fairy tales as a means of fairy tale therapy in correcting children's fears in children of senior preschool age. Through consideration of individual functions of a fairy tale in correctional work, the author analyzes the possibilities of overcoming the children of certain fears. The main mechanism for using fairy tales in correcting children's fears, according to the author's conclusions, is the child's identification mechanism with a fairy-tale image: the child "appropriates" the norms, values, patterns of behavior and resolution of various problems, overcoming the hero's experiences of the fairy tale, which indirectly "live" in a fairy tale a lot of models of emotional response in different situations. The more the child has an arsenal of similar patterns of behavior and response, the better he is adapted to the conditions of the world around him and has fewer fears.