Books Portraying Characters with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Cultivating Images of Cultural Capital: Cultural Activities in Storybooks Featuring Young Characters with Disabilities

“…In conclusion, storybooks portray characters with disabilities as possessing low cultural capital and living a happy life. Consequently, my study lends support to the theory of cultural capital and extends upon previous research on disability in storybooks (Dyches, Prater & Cramer, 2001;Dyches & Prater, 2005;Dyches, Prater & Jenson, 2006;Leininger et al, 2010). The characters described have a wealth of low capital activities, such as watching television, karaoke, and bowling.…”

“…Being underrepresented in middle-to high-class cultural activities in storybooks may signal that such activities are not even considered for individual with disabilities. Hypothetically, stereotypes may reinforce negative attitudes towards people with disabilities and underline that book portrayals must be accurate and realistic to be acceptable (Bandura & Waters, 1977;Dewey, 2013;Dyches & Prater, 2005;Leininger et al, 2010;Prater et al, 2006; Yenika-Agbaw, 2011).…”

“…On the other extreme, storybooks and textbooks portray people with disabilities as helpless and deprived, lacking friends, avoiding sports, and living in financial poverty (Frey, 2004 Consequently, researchers criticize textbooks and storybooks for embracing stereotypes. Stereotypes lack realism and reinforce negative attitudes towards people with disabilities and underline that book portrayals must be accurate and realistic to be acceptable (see also Biklen & Bogdan, 1977;Dyches & Prater, 2005;Leininger et al, 2010;Prater et al, 2006; Yenika-Agbaw, 2011). Researchers' third tendency is to document the inactivity of youths and children with disabilities during their leisure time (Frey, 2004;Temple et al, 2006).…”

Finding Comfort: A Study of Reading Habits among Malaysian University Students During Covid-19 Pandemic

“…According to Smith Family (2009); McNicol (2018), to improve emotional literacy, the readers must learn a valuable lesson from the books they had selected. Leininger (2010) discusses bibliotherapy as helping students gain insight into themselves while promoting problemsolving skills. Thus, it is true that the emotional needs of the respondents are fulfilled.…”

Positive Orientation, Hope For Success And Acquiring Bibliotherapeutic Competences

“…The empirical studies on bibliotherapy carried out so far in Poland and in the world have focused mainly on measuring the effectiveness of bibliotherapeutic programs in working with people with diverse psychological problems. Bibliotherapy, with varying degrees of efficiency was used, among others, as one of the forms of help for people with mental disorders: depression (Moldovan et al, 2013, Jakob andDe Guzman, 2015;Naylor, Antonuccio, Litt et al, 2010), obsessive-compulsive disorder (Leininger, Dyches, Prater et al, 2010), anxiety, (Winship, 2010), emotional and behavioral disorders (Regan and Page, 2008), social phobia (Carlbring, Furmak, Steczk et al, 2006), and interpersonal aggression (Shechtman, 2006). Bibliotherapy has been used many times in the therapy for people struggling with internal conflicts and stress (Hazlett-Stevens and Oren, 2017).…”