APPLICATION OF PSYCHOCORRECTIONAL RESOURCES OF ART THERAPY IN THE SPACE OF INCLUSIVE EDUCATION: PSYCHOCORRECTING "THE RAIN CHILDREN" AND "THE CHILDREN OF THE SUN"

Abstract

The article is devoted to the current problems of inclusive pedagogy. The system of psychocorrection of children with Down syndrome and autistic children is outlined. The system is based on the concept of functional asymmetry of the cerebral hemispheres, the functions of which realize the spatio-temporal organization of the brain, associated with the special differentiation of matter, when the formation of the brain became possible on the basis of the evolution of space and time, and the hemispheres, accordingly, can be considered to be a certain psychophysiological focus of human organism.

It is shown that the psychological correction of "the children of the sun", characterized by the predominant activity of the functions of the right hemisphere of the brain, presupposes the activation of the left-hemispheric mechanisms of the human psyche; and "the rain children", characterized by the predominant activity of the functions of the left hemisphere, are corrected due to the development of their right-hemispheric functions. The process of psychological correction is implemented through the use of some methods/techniques of art therapy, such as finger painting, color therapy, music therapy, dance therapy, drama therapy, sand therapy, etc.

The article, which is of interdisciplinary character, has presupposed using, in addition to the method of theoretical analysis of the problem field of the study, the concept of functional asymmetry of the human brain, as well as the results of the research in the fields of psychocorrectional pedagogy, art pedagogy, psychotherapy, and psychiatry, thus allowing to create an integral psychofractal structure of a person. This structure demonstrates the coherence of such functional axes of a person as the axis of hemispheric interactions (revealing two polar states characteristic of the left and right hemispheres of human brain), the constitutional axis (which reveals two polar constitutional types – schizothymic and cyclothymic), the axis of phase states of the psyche (which demonstrates the space of phase states of the psyche between polar phases – paradoxical and normal ones), the psychopathological axis (extending between schizophrenia and cyclic psychoses), the homeostatic axis (demonstrating two polar homeostases – adaptive and energy ones).