“Another Way to Talk About Feeling Bad”. Creative Interactive Bibliotherapy – A Complement to Treatment for Women with Mental Illness After Childbirth

Pettersson, Cecilia

doi:10.1080/08893675.2021.2004369

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“…An analysis of how participation in the reading group led to increased psychological, social, and intellectual well-being has been published previously (Pettersson 2022). Since this article focuses on what characterizes bibliotherapeutic-appropriate literature from a participant perspective and what functions the selected literature and the discussions about it had for participants, the issue of wellbeing is not central to it (although the fact that the participation in the reading group actually led to increased well-being is an important prerequisite for the relevance of the present study).…”

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“…Some of these questions centered on the participants' life situations and possible similarities between them and the characters in the texts, while others focused more on the participants' thoughts, fantasies, and associations concerning the texts. (Pettersson 2022) Although we thus prepared explicit questions as a starting point for the conversations, these questions did not need to be actualized to any great extent as they flowed on by themselves.…”

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Classics, illness narratives, or fantasy?

Pettersson

2023

NJLIS

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What kinds of fictional literature are most suitable for use in bibliotherapy? And what functions may reading and talking about this literature serve for those participating in a bibliotherapeutic reading group? These questions are highly relevant to researchers who carry out scholarly studies and to librarians who work with bibliotherapy in practice. However, very little empirical research has been conducted from a participant perspective. The aim of this study is to deepen the knowledge of these questions by examining them in relation to a bibliotherapeutic reading group for women with feelings of sadness after giving birth. The material used in the study consists of participant observations of ten group meetings and in-dept interviews with the participants. The analysis shows that participants benefited most from reading and discussing genres that have not traditionally been used for bibliotherapy, such as fantasy and realistic fiction that thematize issues other than the participants’ own problems or health concerns. Some of the bibliotherapeutic functions highlighted by participants can be discerned in recent user-centered research, while others, such as the intellectual function, are quite new. This study contributes new knowledge as it problematizes notions of literature selection found in previous research and presents new functions of bibliotherapy. It is thus highly relevant to both researchers and librarians. Additional similar studies that are more extensive should be carried out to further broaden knowledge of literature selection bibliotherapy.

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Classics, illness narratives, or fantasy?

Pettersson

2023

NJLIS

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“…The reading and discussion of literature take place with the support of a bibliotherapist or an educator with a different type of training. At this point, creative bibliotherapy is also called as interactive creative bibliothreapy because it contains the interaction in the nature of the discussion (Brewster 2011 as cited in Pettersson 2021).…”

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“…The study has proven that bibliotherapy is effective in reducing anxiety. Pettersson (2021) aimed to reveal how creative interactive bibliotherapy affects the social and mental well-being of women with postpartum depression. Accordingly, she formed a reading circle with four women with postpartum depression and implemented the bibliotherapy program for ten weeks.…”

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Developmental Bibliotherapy with Extremely Shy Children

KAYMAZ

2024

Psikiyatride Güncel Yaklaşımlar

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Extremely shy children may find themselves somehow isolated from society and feel alone. This may cause them to experience different problems at home, at school and in the community. If this situation continues in the following years, the difficulties they experience in life will increase and the probability of their emergence as mental problems such as childhood loneliness, social anxiety disorders, depression and anxiety disorders that negatively affect their quality of life will increase. Thus, it is important to intervene in childhood shyness, social isolation, loneliness, and behavioral inhibition in order to eliminate possible problems that may be experienced in childhood and at the same time to prevent the continuation of the situation in adolescence and adulthood. Developmental bibliotherapy can be used in the context of both prevention and early intervention studies for shyness in early childhood with extremely shy children. In this context, the aim of this study is to provide an in-depth perspective on the concepts of extreme shyness and bibliotherapy, and to present an example of a developmental bibliotherapy session that can be experienced with extremely shy children who are between five to eight years old in early childood period and a sample book list that can be used in the sessions.."

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Practising creative bibliotherapy down under: understanding diverse approaches to literature as therapy

James,

Römhild

2023

Journal of Poetry Therapy

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“Another Way to Talk About Feeling Bad”. Creative Interactive Bibliotherapy – A Complement to Treatment for Women with Mental Illness After Childbirth

Cited by 4 publications

References 16 publications

Classics, illness narratives, or fantasy?

Classics, illness narratives, or fantasy?

Developmental Bibliotherapy with Extremely Shy Children

Practising creative bibliotherapy down under: understanding diverse approaches to literature as therapy

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