What is sandplay therapy?

Sandplay therapy refers to a kind of psychotherapy in which visitors freely choose toys from toy shelves and express themselves in a special box filled with fine sand accompanied by a therapist. Sandplay therapy, as a good psychological consultation platform, helps students to release and sort out their psychological conflicts or contradictions consciously or unconsciously in a simple and rich sandplay world through sandplay production, so that they are unconscious and self-integrated, thus solving their psychological problems.

As a kind of psychotherapy and technology, sandbox games are widely used in many fields, such as psychological consultation and counseling, family education, medical diagnosis and treatment, human resources, career guidance, criminal investigation, stress management, psychological counseling and so on. Being able to master and accurately apply this technology has become an important skill for psychologists. Teachers of psychological sand table in Beijing Normal University have taught many times, such as Zhang Risheng, Zhang Yuhong, Che Hongsheng, the first person of sand table therapy in China. You can go and listen to their lectures if you are interested.