Bibliotherapy for Hospital Patients

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 for Chinese Patients with Depression in Rehabilitation

Patients' and providers' perspectives on bibliotherapy in primary care.

Bibliotherapy is a form of self-administered treatment in which structured materials provide a means to alleviate distress. Although the treatment has evidence of effectiveness, evaluations of bibliotherapy have typically focused on outcomes, and the perspectives of both the client and the service provider have been understudied. In the present study, eleven users of a bibliotherapy scheme were...

The Bibliotherapy Program: Requirements for Training

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...