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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"bibliotherapy"”.
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Rethinking Bibliotherapy: Portraits of Gifted Adult Readers
… needs due to their sensitivity and intensities. Bibliotherapy is often recommended to gifted persons to help them understand themselves and others and to address affective needs. However, bibliotherapy’s roots are embedded within a clinical background, thus requiring an element of discussion. …
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Group Therapy Versus Bibliotherapy in Weight Reduction
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Bibliotherapy in existential psychotherapy: a hermeneutic phenomenological exploration
Background: Bibliotherapy uses literature to facilitate the psychotherapeutic process, and therapeutic reading is often used as an adjunct to various psychotherapy modalities. The utilisation of books in psychotherapeutic treatment for the benefit and promotion of psychological well-being is …
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Bibliotherapy: School Psychologists' Report of Use and Efficacy
This study focused on the use of bibliotherapy by school psychologists. A survey was created and distributed to 119 registered and licensed school psychologists in Utah to obtain information on this topic. Forty-one percent returned a completed survey. Results indicated that bibliotherapy is used …
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Using Bibliotherapy To Increase Sharing In A Kindergarten Classroom
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The efficacy of bibliotherapy for social anxiety and depressive symptomology
In this study, the efficacy of a self-help treatment was examined. Participants were undergraduates experiencing comorbid social anxiety and depressive symptoms. It is hypothesized that those in the treatment condition (n=5) would experience a significant reduction in social anxiety and depressive …
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The Assessment of a Program in Bibliotherapy for Black Helpers
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Heterosocial Anxiety Intervention for Excessive Alcohol Users in College: A Bibliotherapy Approach
Alcohol use continues to grow at an alarming rate in college students despite serious health risks and numerous attempts to implement effective prevention programs. Many interventions are costly, time-consuming, and unappealing to young adults. Social anxiety is conceptualized as contributing to …
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Bibliotherapy for bereaved youth: using literature to process grief and understand loss
… in any active or passive way,” also known as bibliotherapy, can be used in public libraries to encourage general wellbeing and health. One of the largest detriments to childhood health in the United States is childhood loss – 1 in 12 children will lose a parent or sibling by the age of …
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Psychologists’ experiences of supporting the socio-emotional development of children through bibliotherapy
This study explored how psychologists experience bibliotherapy in supporting children’s socio-emotional development within the South African context. Although bibliotherapy is increasingly recognised as a developmentally appropriate and cost-effective intervention, little research has examined its …
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The Effectiveness of Bibliotherapy in Teaching Problem Solving Skills to Female Juvenile Delinquents
… The problem of this study was to determine if bibliotherapy is an effective means of teaching specific problem solving skills to female juvenile delinquents. Specific problem solving skills under study were identification of problems, analysis of the emotional content of problems, analysis of …
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Effects of bibliotherapy on fourth and fifth graders' perceptions of physically disabled individuals
… was provided for all teachers using the bibliotherapy program. The responses on the questionnaire were informally analyzed in order to gain further information on the effects of the program.The two hypotheses tested by the study were:Hypothesis 1. There is no significant difference …
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Reading for Health: Bibliotherapy and the Medicalized Humanities in the United States, 1930-1965
… attempts to establish, develop, and study bibliotherapy in the US. I follow three groups-hospital librarians, psychologists and psychiatrists, and language arts educators-from the 1930s to the 1960s, when each in its own ways expressed belief in the therapeutic power of reading and set out …
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An investigation of experiences of reading for mental health and well-being and their relation to models of bibliotherapy
Bibliotherapy is the use of imaginative or self-help literature as an intervention for mental health problems. It aims to provide psycho-social support and treatment and is used with individuals or in a group. Bibliotherapy has come to prominence in the UK over the past decade. Bibliotherapy …
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O projeto de lei nº 4186/ 2012: em cena a atuação da biblioterapia
The research of this work focuses on the bibliotherapy as a hospital practice, demonstrating the importance of the performance of this technique by multidisciplinary team. They present several activities as a therapeutic form for hospitalized patients and / or their companions. The general …
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Coping with stress through bibliotherapy : the effects of reading Zhuang Zi’s fables for Taiwan college students
The term “Bibliotherapy” was first coined in 1916. It was mainly used in hospitals for veterans and psychiatric patients before the 1970s (Alexander & Buggie, 1976). Later on, bibliotherapy was applied in the developmental and psychotherapeutic field. Russell (1958) defined bibliotherapy as the …
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The Relative Effectiveness of Behavioristic Bibliotherapy, Contingency Contracting, and Suggestions of Self-Control in Weight Reduction
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