Looking Beyond Traditional Bibliotherapy: A New View

Abstract

Chapter One: Introduction 1.1 Introduction to bibliotherapy 1.2 A shift in health and wellbeing 1.3 Wellbeing 1.4 Background to the training 1.5 Research rationale 1.6 Research question, aims and objectives 1.7 Methodology overview 1.8 Thesis structure 1.9 Research contribution 2.0 Chapter One concluding comments Chapter Two: Literature review 2.1 A brief history of therapeutic reading 2.2 Bibliotherapy definitions 2.3 Objectives of bibliotherapy 2.4 Multi-disciplinary views of bibliotherapy 2.4.1 Bibliotherapy in clinical areas 2.4.1.1 Bibliotherapy and hospitals 2.4.1.2 Bibliotherapy in psychiatric hospitals 2.4.1.3 Bibliotherapy in veterans' hospitals 2.4.1.4 Bibliotherapy and general practitioners 2.4.1.5 Bibliotherapy within counselling 2.4.1.6 Internet bibliotherapy 2.4.2 Bibliotherapy in non-clinical areas 2.4.2.1 Bibliotherapy in the education system 2.4.2.2 Bibliotherapy and the arts vi2.4.3 Creative bibliotherapy in community settings 2.4.3.1 Bibliotherapy in criminal justice 2.4.3.2 Bibliotherapy within aged care 2.5 The effectiveness of bibliotherapy 2.5.1 Bibliotherapy used within clinical settings 2.5.2 The success of bibliotherapy to effect wellbeing 2.5.3 The success of creative bibliotherapy to effect wellbeing 2.6 Creative bibliotherapy training 2.7 Chapter Two concluding comments Chapter Three: Methodology and methods 3.1 Methodology 7.9 Chapter Seven concluding comments x Chapter Eight: Conclusion 8.1 Broad research findings 8.2 Overview of the research findings 8.3 Key findings in the Australian program 8.3.1 Social connectedness 8.3.2 Shared listening 8.3.3 Literature as a therapeutic tool 8.3.4 Meeting requirements of public libraries into the future 8.4 Answering the research question 8.5 Limitations of the research 8.6 Recommendations for future creative bibliotherapy training

Reading experience librarianship: working with readers in the 21st century

“…Closely related to reading in medical libraries is the practice of bibliotherapy, that is, using reading, literature, and books to help people cope with challenging life situations, experiences and transitions. Bibliotherapy has been growing in popularity among librarians in the last 20 years, which is evident by an increasing number of publications related to all types of libraries (e.g., Brewster et al, 2012Brewster et al, , 2013Canty, 2017;Kuijpers, 2018;Levin and Gildea, 2013;McLaine, 2017). Whether we talk about clinical bibliotherapy (i.e., therapy that uses reading and books to help improve a person's mental and physical health) or developmental bibliotherapy (i.e., a practice of using books to help individuals without mental and physical health issues cope with challenging situations and life transitions), the focus is always on experience: the experience of interacting with a book, the experience of engaging with a story, or the experience of discussing a book with a therapist, a counsellor, a librarian and/or a group of peers.…”