Q: What is Sandplay Therapy?
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Sandplay therapy is to use the presentation of the sand world and the symbolism of sand to explore the unconscious, and to explore the subconscious mind together through the professional guidance of psychological counselors. We also cultivate positive thinking through games, so that the body and mind can live and learn more healthily and harmoniously.
Sandplay therapy is effective in addressing problems such as hyperactivity, convulsions, apathy, poor independence, withdrawal, autism, poor cooperation, anxiety, irritability, learning difficulties, inattention, and lack of creativity.
Q: How is the sandbox game completed?
The sandbox game is composed of a fixed size sandbox, sand, and some representative small toys. Through the process of the game, the experiencer presents the invisible psychological content in some appropriate symbolic way.
In addition to ordinary visitors, sandplay can also target clients who have obstructed communication, and the counselor needs to remember the order and position of the clients, and give companionship and support. Experiencers through different times, different moods of the sand table, to achieve the purpose of psychological adjustment.
Q: How does Sandbox game work?
Sand is part of the earth—it is the boundary line between the bottomless sea of the unconscious and the uplifted land of consciousness.
It records the footprints of time, the tides of the universe. Just as the "hourglass" symbolizes the flow of time, the grains of sand concentrate millions of years of time. The space presented by the sand table is like the bearer of the earth, and the mountains and rivers are fully displayed in it.
The sandbox game contains symbols of "heaven and time", "geographical advantage" and "people". And when the "game" makes it come alive, it is the meaning of the person and his psychology that is expressed between heaven and earth.
Q: What is the purpose of sandbox games?
In sand table treatment, it is originally a kind of release, and the experiencer can expose and release all the negative emotions in the past experience in the sand table by freely placing various sand tools on the sand, which can empty him.
In the process of emptying, he will also regress, retreating to the point where the early trauma is fixed, and the therapist will work according to these points.
Sandplay is not just a therapeutic condition in the ordinary sense, but contains the idea of "positive psychology" as we understand it. It can not only be used as a means of psychotherapy to calm their uneasiness; but also play a role in psychological counseling in the ordinary sense; it can promote the maintenance of the client's mental health, imagination and creativity.
Q: What is the specific significance of building a sandbox?
The construction of the sand table is the construction of the visitor's self. The small models that we fiddle with in our hands, their size, their location, their distance, the situation they constitute, and even our body language when creating the sandbox, are all projections of our hearts.
So to build a sand world is also to construct that subconscious self. By constructing this self, the repressed mental potential is released, so that the mind gains new strength.
Q: What is the difference between sandplay and other forms of psychotherapy?
Most of the psychological counseling will be in the form of verbal communication, and the biggest difference in sand table treatment may be that it attaches importance to both the physical and mental levels, the expression of "body" and the speech of "hand". When your hands touch the sand, choose different sand tools and place them in your place...
At this time, the body and mind are feeling at the same time, the body and mind are expressing at the same time, the life energy of the body and mind is refined, and the healing effect begins.
Q: Why does it take a while for treatment to not be as immediate as anti-fever drugs?
The formation of all symptoms is not a matter of one or two days, nor is it a matter of one or two days to resolve. The first few treatments are usually the process of doing assessments, collecting information, and cultivating a relationship of trust. With the deepening of treatment, the treatment goal will continue to adjust.
When treatment really works, a sufficiently safe counseling relationship must be established to open the subconscious mind. The therapist has the opportunity to begin to give the client true companionship, holding, and healing through the relationships they have established.
So treatment is a process.
Q: Why is it only 60 minutes per treatment instead of longer?
According to scientific studies, the neck fatigue limit is 45 minutes.
An important point in educational psychology is that the brain of adolescents has only about 10 to 30 minutes of continuous concentration, and the adult brain has only 30 to 50 minutes of continuous concentration. That's why a lesson is only 45 minutes long, and an adult class doesn't exceed 1 hour.
The sand room needs to use the child's creativity, which also needs to concentrate and consume a certain amount of physical strength. Depending on the needs of the case, the consultant will give guidance or intervention, so the overall case time is not more than 60 minutes at most.
Q: Why does the treatment need to be done once a week instead of twice a week?
Each treatment is a process of psychological energy, and maintaining the stability of the treatment interval is important for the efficacy.
For the general situation, the interval once a week is ideal, the longest interval time is 15 days, and the excess power has been slowed down.
If you do it twice a week, it will also cause a state of too much density and too much power. As a result, the experiencer is prone to abnormal excitement.