Reading for Depression/Mental Health

Ellis, Clare; McCann, Eleanor; Dalsgård, Anne Line

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_5

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“…Different aspects of the SR experience [see e.g. (Andersen, 2022;Ellis et al, 2019;Steenberg et al, 2014)] as well as connections between SR and mental health [see e.g. 13, 19] have been explored using a variety of both qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods approaches [see (Billington and Billington, 2019;Billington et al, 2021)].…”

Section: Literature As Mental Health Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We're Opening 20 Doors!”: Exploring the Collective Dimensions of Shared Reading as Mental Health Promotion Among Newly Retired Men in Denmark

Kristensen

Pihl

Simonsen

et al. 2023

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Section: Literature As Mental Health Promotionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“We're Opening 20 Doors!”: Exploring the Collective Dimensions of Shared Reading as Mental Health Promotion Among Newly Retired Men in Denmark

Kristensen

Pihl

Simonsen

et al. 2023

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“…Although there are several different types of prosody, emotional prosody is responsible for creating emotional tone and more subtle grades of meaning in the literary material being read aloud. This requires facilitators to decide how much stress to put on individual words to develop meaning and emotional significance (Ellis et al, 2019;McLaine & Mackenzie, 2018). Kim found that people in both the groups she had worked with 'said it's [i.e., listening to someone reading] calming and relaxing… that was mentioned more than once.'…”

Section: Shared Listeningmentioning

confidence: 99%

Looking Beyond Traditional Bibliotherapy: A New View

McLaine

2017

Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

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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

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“…The health outcomes have been tested on various patient groups and have showed positive results for people with dementia ( Longden et al, 2016 ), chronic pain ( Billington et al, 2014 , 2017 ; Ohlsson et al, 2018 ), and neurological conditions ( Robinson, 2008b ). Apart from those studies, the main body of the research concerns mental health issues ( Robinson, 2008a ; Billington et al, 2010 ; Dowrick et al, 2012 ; Steenberg, 2014 ; Gray et al, 2016 ; Ellis et al, 2019 ; Billington, 2020 ; Kristensen et al, 2020 ; Christiansen, 2021 ; Christiansen and Dalsgard, 2021 ), and this research is very promising. However, somatic diseases such as cancer, which is associated with heightened risk of common mental disorders, ( Zhu et al, 2017 ), are underrepresented in the current studies.…”

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Regaining autonomy, competence, and relatedness: Experiences from two Shared Reading groups for people diagnosed with cancer

Andersen

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study explored 12 cancer patients’ experiences from participating in an online and on-site Shared Reading group for 16 weeks in Norway. Shared Reading is a practice in which prose and poetry are read aloud in small parts and discussed along the way. The study is a qualitative evaluation study with a particular focus on how the participants experienced the reading group supported their life living with cancer. The study was mainly based on the data collected from focus group discussions with the participants, which was analysed qualitatively through open coding. In total, four themes were identified: (1) open space, (2) disconnecting through connecting, (3) community, and (4) resonances and echoes. The participants expressed that the RG helped them to “balance life and cancer”, and “disconnect” from their illness. The cognitive effort needed was beneficial for the participants as a form for “cognitive training.” Since many of the participants had, due to their illness, completely stopped reading books, the reading group also brought literature back into the participants’ lives. Furthermore, it was essential for the participants to feel they contributed to a community, to feel useful and valuable for others. The texts were also important, as some of them resonated strongly with the participants in the way of activating memories and connecting a text to own experiences. After a session, a text could still have an impact as an echo. The results are synthesised, discussed, and supported through the framework of self-determination theory and, more specifically, the basic psychological need theory. The reading group was experienced as a support for autonomy, competence, and relatedness and promoted a feeling of intrinsic motivation that brought about new dimensions in the participants’ lives. The study wishes to increase our knowledge of the benefits of integrating Shared Reading groups as a low-cost, literature-based psychosocial support in cancer organisations.

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Reading for Depression/Mental Health

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“We're Opening 20 Doors!”: Exploring the Collective Dimensions of Shared Reading as Mental Health Promotion Among Newly Retired Men in Denmark

“We're Opening 20 Doors!”: Exploring the Collective Dimensions of Shared Reading as Mental Health Promotion Among Newly Retired Men in Denmark

Looking Beyond Traditional Bibliotherapy: A New View

Regaining autonomy, competence, and relatedness: Experiences from two Shared Reading groups for people diagnosed with cancer

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