This document discusses psychomotricity, which integrates cognitive, emotional, symbolic and sensorimotor aspects of a person to promote holistic development. Psychomotricity uses intervention through movement, expression, creativity and play. The intervention aims to understand movement as an expression of development within a person's environment. Goals include becoming an interlocutor for children, providing emotional support, collecting creative productions, giving meaning to play, and promoting maturation and thought. Interventions are designed with general purposes to provide security, as well as specific purposes tailored to individual children's needs and difficulties. This allows for motor expressiveness and a supportive environment for overall development.

1. Psychomotricity core concepts
“My” psychomotricity approach
Gil Pla, Ph.D aka @gildevic
Lecturer at University of Vic, Barcelona
Physical Activty Sciences Department
Education, Translation and Human Sciences Faculty

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from my own with children rights within.

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ByMantasmagorical,http://morguefile.com

4. Psychomotricity?

5. “Psycho” +
“Motricity”
Dupre, 1910

6. “Psychomotricity” 
“Psychomotor intervention”

7. What does it means/is?
Based on an overview of the person, the term
"psychomotor" integrates cognitive, emotional,
symbolic and sensorimotor being in the ability to be
and to express themselves in a psychosocial context.
Psychomotor well defined, plays a key role in the
harmonious development of personality. Based on this
concept, psychomotricity develops different forms of
psychomotor intervention that find their application,
regardless of age, in the preventive, educational,
rehabilitative and therapeutic fields (FAPEE, 2000).
ByXimenez,http://morguefile.com

8. What does it means/is?
Psychomotricity is a way of educational or therapeutic
intervention aimed at the development of motor,
expressive and creative possibilities through the body,
which leads psychomotricity to focus their activity and
interests in the movement and the human act, including
all the results arising from it: dysfunctions, pathologies,
stimulation, learning, etc. (Berruezo, 1995).
ByXimenez,http://morguefile.com

9. Human being as a unityBackground
Body and movement intervention.
“Body approach”
Route
For global development in all being dimensions
(psychological, emotional, social and physical)
Aim
Overview

10. Psicokinetics
Le Boulch
Development and coordination
Cratty, Kiphard
Psychomotorik therapy (TPM)
Da Fonseca
Mecanicist/funcional
Psychomotor practise
Aucouturier
Relationship psychomotricity
Lapierre
Psychomotoric clinic
Levín
Experiential
Main intervention trends
Evolutive psychology: Piaget, Wallon
Humanist psychology: Rogers
Psychoanalysis: Freud, Reich, Lowen...
Oriental body practices
Active pedagogy
Theoretical background
Birth concept
"Psicomotricity" by Dupré
Framework

11. Experiencial point of view, core concepts.
“Psychomotor intervention”

12. The intervention as an iceberg...
The biggest part of the intervention is not explicitly shown or usually is hidden.
ByGabrielrochette,http://morguefile.com

13. Spacial device
Temporal device
Attitudinal device
Material device
*Arnaiz, P.; Rabadan, M.; Vives. I. (2001). La psicomotricidad en la escuela: una práctica preventiva y educativa. Málaga: Aljibe
Intervention devices*
Bymarkmiller,http://morguefile.com
(didactics?)

14. The devices must lead to...
Safety and secure
environment
Emocionally
Physically

15. Temporal device
• Entry ritual (hosting).
• Spontaneus/free play or movement (motor
expressiveness).
• Sensormotor activity.
• Simbolic activity.
• Representation (taking psychological distance
of the body/emotional movement).
• Exit ritual (farewell).
By markmiller, http://morguefile.com

16. Back, T device
G: „Mom, can I
eat some
sweets?“
M: „No, because
then you don´t
lunch“
M: „Half an hour,
more or less“
G: „When do we
lunch, then?“
G: „Hey, live the
present as well“

17. Fixed Mobile
Accessible Unaccessible
Hard Soft
Stable Changeable
Material device
Arnaiz, P.; Rabadan, M.; Vives. I. (2001). La psicomotricidad en la escuela: una práctica, preventiva y educativa. Málaga: Aljibe
http://morguefile.com

18. Non structured
Structured
Spacial device
“Always in a room”
Byanda2007,http://morguefile.com

19. Empathy
Listening
Law symbol
Symbolic Partenaire
ByJimMunnelly,http://morguefile.com
* Aucouturier, B.; Darrault, I. i Empinet, J.L. (1985). La práctica psicomotriz. Reeducación y terapia. Barcelona: Científico
Médica.
Attitudinal device*

20. back, Symbolic partenaire
A flower, sometimes known as a
bloom or blossom, is the
reproductive structure found in
flowering plants (plants of the
division Magnoliophyta, also
called angiosperms). The
biological function of a flower is to
effect reproduction, usually by
providing a mechanism for the
union of sperm with eggs…
Water is a chemical compound
with the chemical formula H2O. A
water molecule contains one
oxygen and two hydrogen atoms
connected by covalent bonds.
Water is a liquid at standard
ambient temperature and
pressure, but it often co-exists
on…
Soil is a natural body consisting of
layers (soil horizons) that are
primarily composed of minerals,
mixed with at least some organic
matter, which differ from their
parent materials in their texture,
structure, consistency, color,
chemical, biological and other
characteristics. It is the
unconsolidated or loos…
?

21. back, empathy
Ma: „Mom, I
reach an „A“ in
geometrics!!“
G: „I congratulate
you, ruinyhomes!!“
Mo: „Congrats!
smuuuuack!!“

22. back, Law symbol
„Forbidden to
step on grass“ L: „Damn the desire
that I had to step on
grass, but it makes me
sick of being told of
what I know what I
shouldn´t do!“

23. back, Listening
M: „Forget
hoop and go
away, I´m
busy“
G: „Yeah, hoop
done“
G: „Hoop “

24. Intervention
ByLadyheart,http://morguefile.com
Action

25. With this starting point
Psychomoticity [or psychomotoric intervention] is not focused in the
movement itself but the understanding of the movement as a meaning of the
developmental and expresion factors of the individual in its environment
(Berruezo, 2000).

26. Intervention goals (Franc, 2004)
• Become an interlocutor of the child.
• Provide emotional respecte and recognition.
• Collect and evolve the children game productions.
• Give sense and content to the children game.
• Promote the manifestation of the intrapsychic reality.
• Encourage psychological maturation.
• Promote the passage from the act [movement] to the thought.

27. Through...
General proposals
Particularly interventions
The general purposes organize the overall structure/activities of the session. Also
frame the context and provide general security in the activity. The purposes lead
an optimal growth and development environment for the children. The structure
and activities are designed for the common circumstances of those children.
In between the general purposes there are short, specific and particularly
moments where pshychomotrician interacts with a single/little group of children.
These interventions are focused in every single difficulties and potentials of every
children or child relationships and must deal with its needs. That is why every
single intervention is special and different for every child.

28. Developing such
environment:

29. It promotes

30. And allows...

31. ...motor expressiveness

32. Motorexpressiveness

33. Motorexpressiveness

34. Then (remember)...
Human being as a unity
Body/movement intervention
Is respected
Global development in all
being domains
(psychologic, emotional,
social & physical)
Can be achieved
Through a real/global /deeper
expression of every single child

35. Thank you for your attention.