Playing as a diagnostic tool in psychological counseling

The author investigated the possibilities of using the director's game as one of the types of plot-role play to identify the child's experiences of the psychotraumatic sides of intra-family interaction. During the study, a nondirective form of a directorial plot-role-playing game and a directed (with the participation of a psychologist) game "in the family" were used. Diagnostic value is the choice of game items and characters, affective attitude to characters that symbolize family members and the child himself, features of the plot reflecting the life of the family. The article shows that the developed technique of directed directorial plot-role play serves as an adequate diagnostic tool for identifying the characteristics of a child's experience of child-parent relationships.