Bibliotherapy

Bibliotherapy

Surely then, it should be the chief interest, joy and duty of hospital librarians?by which is meant professional or nonprofessional workers in libraries for hospital patients?to endeavour by instinct, training and human understanding, to link the appropriate book to each potential reader, sometimes by showing a genuine interest in whatever topic seems to raise queries, worries, or enthusiasm in...

Bibliotherapy and food cravings control.

The use of self-help manuals or bibliotherapy could be an effective resource to treat obesity, but their effects on the elaborative processes of food cravings remain unclear. The present study examined whether bibliotherapy can effectively reduce food cravings in an overweight and obese adult population. 80 participants were randomly allocated either to the Self-help Manual group or the Intenti...

Bibliotherapy in unipolar depression: a meta-analysis.

In the last decades, several therapies for unipolar depression have been developed, for example cognitive therapy, behavior therapy and pharmacotherapy. A new kind of therapy is bibliotherapy. What is new in this treatment modality is not the content, because bibliotherapy usually uses a cognitive-behavioral approach. Only the form in which it is presented is new. In bibliotherapy the patient t...

Phenomenology of bibliotherapy in modifying teacher punitiveness.

The authors examined the phenomenology of bibliotherapy and its effects in changing preservice teachers' punitive attitudes toward children. Participants (N = 29) were enrolled in a university course (Introduction to Emotional Disturbance). Five books by Torey Hayden, autobiographical accounts of teaching and building relationships with students with emotional and behavioral disorders, were rea...

The Bibliotherapy Program: Requirements for Training