93 PPT Journal “THE GLOBAL PSYCHOTHERAPIST” Volume 3. Number 1. January 2023 Section: PPT training https://doi.org/10.52982/lkj186 ISSN 2710-1460 WAPP PARABLES AS A TRANSCULTURAL TOOL FOR A PSYCHOLOGIST'S WORK WITH THE REQUESTS OF PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH ABNORMAL DEVELOPMENT Ganna Naydonova Ph.D. (Psychology), Psychologist, Associate Professor of the Chair of Special Psychology and Medicine, Department of Special and Inclusive Education, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine) Email: h.o.naydonova@npu.edu.ua ORCID: 0000-0002-6679-0469 Iryna Uninets Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy), Basic Consultant of Positive Psychotherapy, Associate Professor of the Department of Practical Psychology, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University (Kyiv, Ukraine) Email: germanirina777@gmail.com ORCID: 0000-0002-1690-6590 Received 15.11.2022 Accepted for publication 30.12.2022 Published 20.01.2023 Abstract Parables are considered to be an effective tool in a psychologist's work with parents of children with abnormal development. As a kind of metaphor, parables actuate neurodynamic mechanisms of the personality's reflection of actual life issues. The use of parables is specific, depending on the psychodynamic stage of the family with a child who has some developmental problems. The requests of parents of children with abnormal development were classified and the parables were matched to each underlying request type. The use of various options of work with stories by psychologist in the therapeutic process is possible. The authors give some examples of parables at the end. Keywords: parable, metaphor, abnormal development, transcultural approach, positive psychotherapy Introduction Metaphors are effectively used in modern psychotherapy and psychological counselling (Tay, 2013, 2014; Törneke, 2017, 2022). Krotenko & Naydonova consider that metaphor is an effective psychological tool that actuate neurodynamic mechanisms of personality's reflection of actual life issues. The metaphorical language allows a psychotherapist or counsellor to convey relevant messages to the client in a sufficiently safe form and unobtrusively suggest options for solving the problem (Krotenko,