Provides strategies for teaching literature, focusing on motivating activities, literature terminology, evaluative techniques, and independent work. Presents detailed activities designed to help children cope with problems and thus promote mental health. (RS)

Reviews the literature on bibliotherapy in terms of its history, research findings, and limits. (RB)

Proposes a rationale and methods for enhancing teachers' motivation and stresses self-exploration, personal choice, and independent decision-making toward mainstreaming. Notes that a humanistic approach, applying values clarification and bibliotherapy methods, along with group counseling principles, underlies this training program to modify values…

Presents a useful technique for helping meet individual student needs and improving reading comprehension. Examines how literature can be used, through the bibliotherapeutic technique, with collaborative groups to facilitate the total development of children. (MG)