Body dissatisfaction is so common in the western world that it has become norm, especially among women and girls. Writing New Worlds a transdisciplinary research-creation project aims to address these issues by developing an interactive digital fiction for body image bibliotherapy. It created with critical co-design participation of group young non-binary individuals (aged 18–25) from diverse b...

Purpose. The paper aims to point out the possibilities of developing critical thinking in children by conducting bibliotherapy workshops library based on template a traditional children's story. work is course that authors run at Croatian Training Centre for Continuing Education Librarians encourage children, develop reading habits and create reader. It were an integral part international proje...

Bibliotherapy has occasionally been used as a counseling technique. However, most reports are basically single-case studies and the psychological effect of this approach remains unclear. Two experiments using 96 healthy college volunteers were conducted to determine how the reading of emotionally positive, negative, or neutral passages affect one's mood and level of distraction. Study 1 reveale...

Using a sample of 45 women, this study compared the effectiveness of a previously studied (Mintz, Balzer, Zhao, & Bush, 2012) bibliotherapy intervention (Mintz, 2009), a similar self-help book (Hall, 2004), and a wait-list control (WLC) group. To examine intervention effectiveness, between and within group standardized effect sizes (interpreted with Cohen's, 1988 benchmarks .20 = small, .50 = m...

BACKGROUND Cultural adaptation of mental health care interventions is key, particularly when there is little or no therapist interaction. There is little published information on the methods of adaptation of bibliotherapy and e-mental health interventions. OBJECTIVE To systematically search for evidence of the effectiveness of minimally guided interventions for the treatment of common mental ...