By: (I don’t know anyone’s names) Bibliotherapy By: (I don’t know anyone’s names)

What is Bibliotherapy? Dictionary Definition: “The use of books as therapy in the treatment of mental or psychological disorders.” Because of this definition, there’s some debate as to whether or not a teacher is qualified to use Bibliotherapy. Teachers can use Bibliotherapy beyond it’s dictionary definition and use it to help a child solve a “problem.”

What’s a Problem? A child must view what you’re trying to teach as a problem. If a child steals, but likes it, and doesn’t see anything wrong with it, is it a problem to the child? Bibliotherapy can be used (If a book exists of it) for any problem a child thinks he/she has.

Demonstration A child has a problem with a parent who has a mental disorder. Her mother is bipolar and has moments of anger. How does the child in the book solve the problem. To be used when a student may have a parent with the same condition at home.

Demonstration Begins: