Description

“Bibliotherapy practitioners attempt to help people of all ages to understand themselves and to cope with problems such as separation and divorce, child abuse, foster care, and adoption by finding literature that reflects the experiences of the reader (Abdullah, M.H.,2005. para 1)”. 

Abdullah, M.H.(2005).What is bibliotherapy. CYC-Net. Issue 72.

Retrieved October 21, 2019 from: 

https://www.cyc-net.org/cyc-online/cycol-0105-biblio.html

Learning Outcomes for this course: 

Discuss the benefits and challenges using bibliotherapy in our work with children and youth.

Identify bibliotherapy books that can be utilized to work with specific issues and concerns.

Review a bibliotherapy book and write a book review that can be submitted to amazon or a magazine journal that supports the work of those that work with children/youth,  or web site. 

Create a first draft of a bibliotherapy book to submit for instructor feedback.