Explains an approach to psychotherapy in which facilitators and participants interact based on a mutual sharing of fiction and nonfiction literature, and shows how it can be applied to children having trouble adjusting to foster or adopted homes. In describing several specific techniques, identifies books that practitioners have found helpful when working with children in placement. Includes annotated bibliographies of books on foster care and on adoption, arranged by suitable reading age. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Bibliotherapy, which literally means treatment through books, is an approach that helps children through reading, to more clearly understand the problems facing them and to develop solutions for solving problems. It is an approach for professionals helping children deal with foster care placement and adoption. This book will be a useful resource for foster and adoptive parents, clergy, and librarians.
Bibliotherapy, which literally means treatment through books, offers a new and creative approach for helping children in substitute care. Foster and adoptive parents, biological parents, teachers, psychologists, social workers, clergy, and librarians will find this book to be a useful resource.
