The concept of bibliotherapy draws upon various academic fields, such as medicine, literary criticism, librarianship, and psychology, to promote the use reading a therapeutic tool. This study aimed explore extent which medical library workers are aware utilize bibliotherapy. Using descriptive survey design, employed Slovin's formula simple random sampling select 24 respondents from population 4...

This article discusses three contrasting models of bibliotherapy which have developed in the UK over last two decades. Building on earlier history bibliotherapy, each these aim to provide access selected texts it is hoped will a positive effect reader’s mental health. The most widespread schemes draw from medical and healthcare knowledge self-help resources for diagnosed health conditions. Alon...

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...

Object. — Bibliotherapy is a concept which leads us to consider the wide range of actual therapeutic approaches. The originality of bibliotherapy lies in the fact that the use of a writing (brochure, manual, book.. .) constitutes the central element of the help intervention. Methodology. — A review of the literature about the different types of bibliotherapeutic books, about the way these books...

This article focuses on the use of children's literature in the treatment of child abuse, a method referred to as bibliotherapy. Appropriate children's books are described that can be used in this approach.