Bibliotherapy is reading books to help people understand their own actions, feelings, and find possible ways to cope

with problems. By identifying with a character who successfully resolves a problem similar to the one they are experiencing

they can gain insights into their own life.

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Addresses the cognitive, emotional and social dimensions:

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• Provides information and supports exploration about various topics on a developmentally appropriate level

• Fosters an understanding of their own experience

• Empowers people to recognize their own feelings in the literature

• Encourages people to disclose their thoughts, feelings, problems, and fears

• Assists children in adjusting and coping with the difficulties they face

• Develops critical thinking and strategies to manage problems

• Creates awareness that others have similar problems and enhances feelings of belonging

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Post-Reading Discussion:

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• Aims to identify feelings, problems, and find solutions.

• Encourages the exploration and discovery of the parallels with their own life

• Encourages to open up and share their own feelings and concerns which helps to understand and reframe their own experience.

• Experiencing and gaining insight into solving a problem, characters’ coping skills and applying this knowledge to his or her own life 

• Insight occurs when the reader understands the feelings and situation in a new way and is then motivated to make positive behavioral changes

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