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Bibliotherapy involves the therapeutic use of books and literature to facilitate the expression of feelings and coping skills. The purpose of this research was to analyze the scientific production on bibliotherapy, indexed in Scopus. A bibliometric study was carried out using quantitative methods to know the development of research related to bibliotherapy at a general level. A retrospective recovery of documents was carried out, without a temporality filter, identifying 1,289 records, in which the article predominates as the type of document and English as the language. The most cited author is Cuijpers, while the most prolific is John Pardeck; the most productive countries correspond to the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Among the most preponderant keywords are: bibliotherapy, female, male, adult, rehabilitation, depression, cognitive therapy, psychotherapy, child and self-care. It is concluded that production has increased systematically during the 21st century, and its use as an auxiliary tool in the treatment of physical and psychological diseases has increased. On the other hand, although bibliotherapy is considered part of the work of librarians, there is not a large production of information professionals. Due to this, it is suggested to increase the research on bibliotherapy from the librarianship perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Currently, informational, social, and economic pressures, among others, are affecting individuals in society, favoring the proliferation of mental illnesses. In this scenario, complementary strategies to conventional psychological/psychiatric therapies started to be taken into account in the work with mental health in hospitals. Two of them rely on the participation of the information professional, that is, bibliotherapy, which provides self-reflection through books; and the maker space, in which the person can create objects, expressing themselves and exercising their creativity. From this perspective, this research aimed to verify the corpus of articles dealing with the interaction between Information Science, the maker space and bibliotherapy in hospitals that work with mental health, highlighting how the keywords used in these articles could help the understanding of this relationship. As methodological procedures, keyword co-occurrence analysis was used. It was found that the corpus is still incipient, with eight groups of articles, consisting of 105 keywords. However, the therapies mentioned give autonomy to patients, with no side effects, through which the information professional has an active role in collaborating with health professionals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article "Reading comics for the well-being of adolescents in residential care" analyzes how reading comics can be a useful tool for working with adolescents in residential care. Sixteen works were selected and analyzed that address themes related to the maturation and coping with problematic situations by adolescents. The article highlights the importance of understanding the adolescents' family history and providing them with emotional and social support. It also mentions the use of comics as a socio-educational intervention tool to promote the well-being of adolescents in residential care. The comic format stories address different themes and social issues, seeking to raise awareness among adolescents about the importance of meaningful relationships and diversity. Reading comics can contribute to repairing the damaged identities of adolescents and help them face conflicts and reconstruct their history. [Extracted from the article]

This article explores literary mediation in adverse and unconventional contexts in Mexico and Chile. Through interviews, a relationship is established between literary mediation and the categories of care ethics proposed by Joan Tronto. It is concluded that literary mediation is organized through a methodology focused on listening, supporting both leisure and self-knowledge and emotional containment. The importance of establishing mediation objectives related to literacy and personal growth is highlighted, and the mediator's responsibility in recognizing the participants' needs is emphasized. Literary mediation is configured as an assistance practice that seeks to establish dialogues and connect with people's personal experiences in adverse contexts. [Extracted from the article]

Various works have highlighted the value of bibliotherapy or the use of reading as an educational intervention tool in order to address problems of a different nature. One of these problems, one of the most prevalent in the current school population, is dyslexia. This contribution presents and analyzes a corpus of works of children's and youth adult literature in Spanish, originals or translations, and other non-literary fictional texts, whose theme revolves around dyslexia, so that it can be used by teachers and educators as an intervention strategy in children affected by this problem. After carrying out systematic searches for fiction books for children and adolescents on dyslexia in bibliographic repertoires of children's and young adult literature in Spanish, original or translations, by combining keywords related to dyslexia and selection criteria to narrow down the search, the works have been classified, according to a bibliographic record model prepared ad hoc. A critical analysis of the works is carried out, aimed at a possible use in an educational intervention program, by indicating the different nuclei of interest that are addressed in the texts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article discusses the foundation and results of an educational-therapeutic intervention carried out on a group of 20 women in situations of violence. The objective was to contribute to emotional well-being by reading selected literary works that deal with topics related to the situation of the participants. The library therapy approach is examined, which posits that reading literary works has healing properties. The main results indicate that the intervention encouraged greater interest in continuing to read individually and collectively in spaces such as the one experienced. Participants showed willingness to interpret and relate literary texts to their life experiences. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This work has the objective of presenting reflections on the noetic contribution of reading, which is constituted as the logotherapeutic resource of Bibliotherapy, which is considered as a therapy whose tools are books and essentially Literature. From an existentialist perspective, reading is thought of as an activity that leads to reflection, since it involves a subjective contribution characterized by the reader's dialogue with the text, where reading and life experiences interact, resulting from social interactions, which they influence the assignment of meaning. Through the reading of literary texts, the process of identification of the reader with the characters occurs that contributes to the reflection on life, to open up new possibilities and consequently, to solve problems and situations that are complicated or even characterized as noogenic neuroses or existential emptiness. Thus, from that deeper interaction, it is possible to give meaning not only to the text but to life itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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We approach the subject of reading as a complex phenomenon of construction of sense, and reconstruction of oneself, especially in situations of psychic and physical vulnerability as in the case of the hospitalized people. The role of the bibliotherapy is important as a possible tool to apply in the different health centers. The theoretical frame considered is the psychoanalysis (essentially the theory of Winnicott) and the anthropology of the reading (Michèle Petit). The experience of the creation of a library for patients in Portal Amarillo is described (Centro de Información y Referencia en Drogas, Uruguay). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this article is to specify several functions of bibliotherapies, focusing the case of self-help books. By the analysis of a sample of 60 books, we propose a number of parameters to classify self-help as a specific discursive genre. That characterisation involves theme, composition structures and literary style, all typical of the genre. The examination of self-help discursive devices enables to understand their performance on discomforms in subjectivty. Self-help books are answers imbued both in hegemonic ideology and in common sense that characterize this period. In this way, its historical development has had different stages recognizables by the explicit objectives of the books, the foundations of their efficacy and the fields to which their influence is restricted. The systematization of this evolution —that this article presents- makes easier to understand the eclecticism of this contemporary phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present article, some basic concepts related to the bibliotherapy activity that we carry out in Portal Amarillo (Centro Nacional de Información y Referencia en Drogas-Montevideo-Uruguay) are explained. Interdisciplinarity, bibliotherapist profile, and symbolization are some of the subjects of the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This publication aims to provide support and inspiration to librarians and the library staff, for a better understanding of psychiatric disabilities, so they can accept the challenge of providing care and service to people with special needs and / or psychiatric disabilities. The ultimate goal is to ensure that the library services for this group is part of the basic services of the library. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]