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الثلاثاء، 24 أكتوبر 2017

Learn More About Sand Tray Therapy

By William Kennedy


There are many techniques that therapists use to get through to their clients and this technique is increasingly becoming popular as time goes by. Instead of verbally communicating during counseling, the clients are allowed to express themselves using sand and miniatures in an environment that they find less threatening or intimidating. This can be empowering to them as they choose to manipulate the ministries as they would like. This fosters a gradual healing process. Thus, sand tray therapy is effective in removing barriers that offer resistivity to opening up.

The technique often is used on adolescents and kids as they normally find it hard to express themselves in words and properly articulate their thoughts and feelings. Therapists usually provide sand trays, eaters, and miniatures that are variant. These include cars, buildings, trees, human figures, or other natural items, fantasy among others. The miniatures allow clients an opportunity to create a world that articulates their creativity.

Creativity is however not the main purpose of this exercise. Sometimes a patient may voice out their inability to be creative but it has been said that there is no standard of creation that is required. The main objective is the story behind the world that has been made by the client. Once completed, the therapist helps relate it to the experiences of the client.

Not many clients are comfortable with expressing themselves verbally and may leave out vital information while trying to verbalize the images in their head. This tool allows the client to convey their feelings, perceptions, thoughts, psychological and emotional conflicts through the displaying of their own created world as they play with the soil type and miniature.

This tool assists in awareness creation for emotional conflicts that may not have been known previously. As the emotional conflicts become apparent, therapists can share with their client the suitable ways of resolving their conditions. The use of the exercise can promote self-awareness while also improving expressive styles such as verbal communications.

It is often used with children who are not yet in a stage where they can properly articulate their words or who are not mature enough to express their feelings in spoken word. It is very effective as the children are enlightened with the idea of playing with the sand and the toys provided in a safe space.

Although this technique has been considered to be juvenile and applicable only to children, it has been proven to be effective in teenagers and adults as well. This is especially for the ones who are unable to complete their verbal expression as a result of lacking the words of the general fear of opening up. With this tool, the therapists can create a deeper bond quicker than when only words are being relied upon.

It is just not used on individuals but also remains applicable to married couples or even groups of people. It assists in paving the way for discussions that clients may previously have wished not to talk about. Therapists allow clients to remain in control hence creating some safe place for clients to relive trauma as well as establishing gradual healing processes.




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