Keyword: «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.

The article analyzes the influence of child-parent relations on the emotional state of older preschoolers. The author focuses attention on the negative impact of unfavorable types of parental attitudes on the occurrence of fears of different content in children. It is concluded that rejection, authoritarian models of influence, infantilization of the child contribute to the development of violations of the emotional sphere, leading to the formation of a large number of stable and strong fears.

The authors of the article present a psychological analysis of children’s fears at senior preschool age, motivated by empirical research. The basis for setting the goals of the study was the hypothetical assumption that psycho-gymnastics may be an effective means of correcting fears in senior preschool children belonging to the category of acquired (imposed). The results of the experiment confirmed the hypothesis.

The article investigates the problem of children's fears in the psychological literature. Preschool age is considered as a sensitive period in the development of the child's emotional sphere. The results of studying the characteristics of children's fears in preschool children with different levels of anxiety are presented. The results presented by the author indicate that children with different levels of anxiety manifestations differ in the frequency and number of fears of various content.