This study examined children's and adolescent trade books portraying school-age characters with dyslexia. All of the books are contemporary realistic fiction, geared to elementary and adolescent readers, and published in the United States between 1993 and 2003. After an extensive search, seventy-two books were located. An analysis of the…

This article discusses therapeutic letter writing by school counselors as a way of enhancing effectiveness of direct services to students. Writing as an effective therapeutic tool has been well-documented, and therapeutic letter writing specifically has been shown to have positive effects. This article provides a brief literature review, along…

The role of children's literature in helping children make sense of themselves, their experiences and their worlds either in a classroom setting or in a more therapeutic context has been well documented. What has not been researched as far as we know is the use of children's literature in the college classroom as a means of enabling students to…

This bibliography of 85 items is intended to help parents and professionals identify books that are written about or include characters who have a disability. The bibliography begins with a list of other resource guides to disability literature. The list of children's literature is then presented, grouped according to the following disabilities:…

The effect of bibliotherapy, videotaping, and bibliotherapy combined with videotaping techniques on the self concept of 33 behaviorally disordered adolescent males was examined. Analysis of pre- and posttest scores of the Self Observation Scale (SOS) indicated no significant difference between the treatment groups and control groups on any of the…

Brief citations are given for over 300 items each of which has been used at least twice successfully with discussion groups at jails, halfway houses, convalescent hospitals, alcoholic and drug clinics, and psychiatric hospitals during 1974-75. The listings include poetry, films, biographies, essays, plays, short stories, and music. They are…

Lists several books for children which can help them understand their own problems better. Topics include the new baby, muscular dystrophy, blindness, Fear, and psychotic behavior. (JM)

Defines bibliotherapy as an approach that helps people solve their problems through reading books. Discusses the process of bibliotherapy, its various applications, and its limitations. (BH)

The therapeutic use of films and other audiovisual media is recommended for children who are emotionally disturbed and unable to enjoy reading. Eight films are reviewed very briefly. (BD)

Defines and explores the functions of institutional, clinical, and developmental bibliotherapy in library service programs as responses to the interest in self-analysis and self-actualization characteristic of the 1970s. Training and certification of bibliotherapy practitioners are also discussed. (FM)

Examines the use of the poetic with respect to the technical characteristics common to various forms of brief psychotherapy. Suggests that poetry can serve as a therapeutic agent in promoting client change. Conclude with implications for practice and directions for further research. (RS)

Gives a brief report on the therapeutic value of writing in working through the grief process. Presents two poems by the author that helped him work through the loss of his mother and brother. (RS)

Provides a perspective on the integrative healing aspects of poetry. Suggests that poetry calls things together, contains things, brings things to light, and shows how things are already whole, healed, one. (RS)

Presents strategies for using bibliotherapeutic process to prevent and treat adolescent alcohol and drug abuse. Definitions, goals, and principles of bibliotherapy are overviewed. Synopses of several useful books that focus on chemical dependency are presented. (Author)

Argues that within biblio/poetry therapy, self and others are invented through expressive resources inherent in language. Shows how poetic communication conveys, through texts, "transformative" transferences and countertransferences that foster creative imagination. Sees biblio/poetry therapy as a performance scene where co-tellings,…