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What does bibliotherapy mean?

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Noun
  1. An expressive therapy based on an individual's relationship to the content of books, poetry, etc.
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In bibliotherapy, therapists prescribe books for modelling purposes.
In clinical bibliotherapy and bibliocounseling, skilled practitioners use therapeutic methods to help individuals experiencing serious emotional problems.
Today, bibliotherapy takes many different forms, from literature courses run for prison inmates to reading circles for elderly people suffering from dementia.
These differences with regard to drop out from bibliotherapy are in need of further explanation.
Expect cosy fireside stories, decadent dinners and plenty of bibliotherapy.
One such technique is bibliotherapy which is a term first coined by Samuel Crothers many years ago.

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