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,…

The current trial examined the value of modifying empirically validated treatment for childhood anxiety for application via written materials for parents of anxious children. Two hundred sixty-seven clinically anxious children ages 6-12 years and their parents were randomly allocated to standard group treatment, wait list, or a bibliotherapy…

Bibliotherapy is the process of growing toward emotional good health through the medium of literature. The books selected for bibliotherapy must be chosen carefully. The Newbery and Caldecott books are logical choices as they have received the most prestigious awards given in children's literature. If bibliotherapy is to help children and cause…

Bibliotherapy has great potential as an important part of patient treatment and is an obvious area for active exploration by the library profession. (Author/PF)

Surveyed 158 members of American Academy of Psychotherapists in attempt to identify primary users of bibliotherapy, problems for which bibliotherapy seems most applicable, and reading resources that are being used effectively. Found that bibliotherapy was used often, particularly with childrearing skills and sexual dysfunctions. Years of…

The article presents brief reviews of 20 works of children's fiction in which a character stutters. Noted are ways authors portray such aspects of stuttering as symptomatology, causation, and treatment. (Author/DB)

Bibliotherapy can help children prepare for and understand the death of a loved one. An annotated bibliography lists references with age level information on attitudes toward death and deaths of a father, friend, grandparent, mother, pet, and sibling. (Author/CL)

Applications of bibliotherapy to disabled students facing the transition from school to work are examined. Group discussion, role playing, reading aloud, and creative writing are suggested as bibliotherapy techniques. An annotated bibliography lists 11 references. (CL)

Explains how the author uses bibliotherapy, healing through the use of books, as a counseling device. She includes a bibliography of books she has found useful, along with the problems she has used them in conjunction with. (HMV)

Demonstrates how a number of books may be used by classroom teachers to restore students' spirit and mental balance. (DD)

This article describes a Texas Department of Corrections Project which focused on book-discussion groups. The basic structure of the project can be applied to library programming in many types of institutions. (Author/AP)

Present an overview of the field of poetry therapy, discussing definitions, goals, applications, theory, and method (describing a typical session). Notes that this report was originally submitted for testimony on Capitol Hill. (SR)

Advocates use of bibliotherapy as an adjunct to counseling with stepchildren and remarried adults. Information to guide the selection and use of fiction and self-help books for children and adolescents is provided. Also mentioned are other audiences and uses for the adolescent fiction. (Author)