Storytelling Therapy to Building Childhood’s Emotion and Social Relations

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.073How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Therapeutic storytelling, Emotion and Social relations, Childhood’s development

Abstract

Emotion and social relationships are a basic childhood personal life skill. It is useful when children enter preschool, as to meet such a new, different habit, environment, people, and circumstances. It needs mental strength to socially connected. Storytelling is an art therapy required mastery of techniques to convey stories so listeners can feel the situation in the story and emotionally bond with characters and situations in fairy tales. When emotion appeared, listener’s sympathy and empathy formed, in a particular circumstances, situations and characters. Listeners feel and want to do something as the response of a fairy tale’s situation, like: willing to help or to give, promising to do better later, defending friends or others in distress and fear. The aim is to form a psychical period of a child initial development readiness until adult. This research applied survey methods, case study, counselling and literature study. Case study and counselling result, permanent changes to child, the development of emotional abilities positively builds social relations with all ages. As a conclusion, storytelling positively can be applied as therapy that a child needs to form the basic skills, emotions and social relationships. Anyone who can preserve the implication of storytelling are parents, educators, social workers, counsellor and psychologists at school, or at home during family time. It would be such an easy devotion, for the effect delivers extremely positive for children.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Christine Masada Hirashita Tobing
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Storytelling Therapy to Building Childhood’s Emotion and Social Relations
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 390
EP  - 394
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.073
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.073
ID  - Tobing2020
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