Bibliotherapy Development to Improve Environmental Mastery: Psychological Well-Being for Blind Students

Abstract

Visual impairment is a weakness that blind students must overcome. Additionally, this disability impairs a range of aspects of their daily lives. Notable is their capacity to shape their environment to satisfy their psychological needs. Blind students require a high level of environmental mastery to learn and develop in an environment that promotes their psychological well-being and development. As a result of this research, an educational tool called Bibliotherapy was developed to aid teachers in increasing students' environmental awareness. Plomp's three-stage theory serves as the basis for this research and development. This research has been carried out until the product realization stage, so that the next stage for the validity and effectiveness of bibliotherapy becomes a recommendation for further research. This result can also be regarded as an illustration of how teachers can use Bibliotherapy to increase students' environmental mastery.

Bibliotherapy by medical librarians for the blind females

“…In other words, bibliotherapy sessions have effectively increased the experimental group’s self-esteem. These findings are in line with most previous studies that examined the effect of bibliotherapy on the mental health of different groups (Salimi et al, 2014; Lewis et al, 2015; Riahinia et al, 2015; Gerlach and Subramanian, 2016; Jacob and De Guzman, 2016; Betzalel and Shechtman, 2017; Block et al, 2017; Hazlett-Stevens and Oren, 2017; Loveimy and Safarzadeh, 2017; Böttcher et al, 2018; Yuan et al, 2018; Zandian et al, 2019; Hardiansyah et al, 2022).…”

“…Since bibliotherapy was introduced as a complementary tool in treating mental disorders, many studies have been conducted in this field, only one of which has been done on the blind. In this study, Hardiansyah et al (2022) indicated that bibliotherapy is effective in the environmental mastery of blind students. They developed an educational tool to aid teachers in increasing students' environmental awareness.…”

“…The blind and legally blind are part of society, so the mental health of these people is also vital and must be promoted. Regarding the present and Hardiansyah et al (2022) studies, bibliotherapy can help the blind improve their ability to solve or minimize some problems, such as low selfesteem or environmental mastery skills. All bibliotherapy sessions emphasized increasing the sense of value, respect and interest that the person receives from others.…”

“…Librarians and information professionals committed to their profession and expertise, familiarity with various information sources and continuous interaction with different people in educational, research and library environments can play essential roles in bibliotherapy (Gualano et al, 2017;Czernianin et al, 2019). Roberts (1984) pointed out the importance of bibliotherapy for the blind and Hardiansyah et al (2022) indicated that bibliotherapy is effective in the environmental mastery of blind students. Nevertheless, no study has been done on the effect of bibliotherapy on the selfesteem of the blind.…”

“…Roberts (1984) pointed out the importance of bibliotherapy for the blind and Hardiansyah et al (2022) indicated that bibliotherapy is effective in the environmental mastery of blind students. Nevertheless, no study has been done on the effect of bibliotherapy on the self-esteem of the blind.…”