ABSTRACT The major importance of preschool children’s mental health with regard to their emotional and social development has a documented ground in the literature. In these domains, it is crucial for young children to learn how to express their emerging emotions appropriately and efficiently. Creative dance and movement is already being used as a therapeutic technique in a wide range of interventional processes. But it can also be used as a preventive tool for both reducing socio-emotional risks and maximizing developmental and mental health for typically-developing children in early ages; using creative dance as such is a less discussed subject in the literature. Also, creative dance is thought to be an appropriate method for this purpose because of its compatible features with preschool children’s developmental stages. From this point of view, this study discusses the importance of using creative dance in expressing emotions in early childhood and thus aims to emphasize the importance of integrating two domains in early childhood development, namely, socio-emotional development and expressive and creative movement. A literature review method has been used. The literature review has demonstrated that early childhood is parallel with the expression-based structure of creative dance.

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运用创意舞蹈表达学龄前儿童的情绪

摘要 学龄前儿童心理健康对他们的情绪和社会发展的主要重要性在文献中有记载。在这些领域，对于幼儿来说，学习如何恰当有效地表达他们新兴的情绪至关重要。创造性的舞蹈和动作已经在广泛的介入过程中被用作治疗技术。但它也可以用作一种预防工具，既可以降低社会情绪风险，又可以最大限度地提高早期发育正常儿童的发育和心理健康；像这样使用创意舞蹈是文献中讨论较少的主题。此外，创造性舞蹈被认为是实现此目的的合适方法，因为它与学龄前儿童的发展阶段相容。从这个角度来说，本研究讨论了在幼儿期使用创造性舞蹈表达情感的重要性，因此旨在强调在幼儿发展中整合两个领域的重要性，即社会情感发展和表达性和创造性运动。使用了文献综述法。文献综述表明，幼儿期与创造性舞蹈的基于表达的结构是平行的。