Known
as bibliotherapy, choosing books that can help children find solutions to problems they are facing can not only help build fluency but also deal with issues like bullying and school refusal.
Not exact matches
Bibliotherapy is defined
as the use of books
as a treatment for mental or psychological disorders.
Increased opportunity for young people to participate in appropriate rites of passage may be achieved by updating traditional ceremonies, continuing and expanding rites of passage programs and including
bibliotherapy as part of the high school curriculum.
MIT using
bibliotherapy was chosen
as a comparison group because: (a) it seemed inappropriate to withhold treatment by assigning children to wait - list groups when the efficacy of moderately intensive parent training is well - established; (b) comparisons to alternative treatments provide stronger tests of treatment efficacy than do comparisons to untreated controls; and (c) WLC cause problems in assessing outcomes because WLCs generate a disproportionate number of dropouts that are difficult to address in «completer» analyses (Werba et al., 2006).
Results indicated that the
bibliotherapy demonstrated benefit for children relative to waitlist but was not
as efficacious
as the standard Cool Kids group treatment.
Therapy for money and / or work disorders typically involves more than individual and / or couples therapy and can utilize other, less financially costly, forms of treatment, such
as group therapy, support 12 - step groups and
bibliotherapy all
as adjuncts to a primary therapeutic relationship.