Self-guided Bibliotherapy: A Case Study of a Taiwanese Doctoral Student

Reading to relieve emotional difficulties

“…Wang, Chang, and Chang (2009) researched a Taiwanese woman's successful self-guided bibliotherapeutic experience in coping with her emotional difficulties resulting from her interpersonal maladjustment in a career. Wang, Chen, and Wu (2010) probed into a male Taiwanese doctoral student's accomplished self-guided bibliotherapeutic experience in eliminating his mental barriers arising from indifferent attitudes by friends and relatives toward his father's dying and death.…”

“…Based on The Model of the A-B-C Theory developed by Ellis (Corey, 1996), Wang produced the Model of the S-P-R-I-N-G Theory (see Figure 1) (Wang et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2010). S refers to a life story or an unpredictable living hardship.…”

“…S refers to a life story or an unpredictable living hardship. P, an individual's perception of or attitude toward S, not S itself, causes R which denotes emotional and behavioral results (Wang et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2010). I stands for…”

“…N, new cognition or positive thinking developed from I, can provoke inner energy to acquire G, good emotions (Corey, 1996) and behaviors, which can aid the individual to move through his/her living hardship (Wang et al, 2009;Wang et al, 2010).…”