The amazing thing about bibliotherapy is it can fit into most theories of play therapy depending on how you are using it. The last portal is especially engaged when bibliotherapy is combined with other directive play therapy techniques and research actually shows that bibliotherapy increases with effectiveness when paired with another directive technique. Drop a comment below if you are also a fellow book nerd with your favorite book to use in the playroom!īooks are SO magical because they engage and capture the three portals of learning – visual, auditory, and tactile and kinesthetic. It is one of my favorite things to present on and I only combined my last presentation Books, Games, and Media Oh My: Broadening Your Play Therapy Toolbox because I didn’t know how many other book nerds were out there and would be interested in a whole 6 hours of bibliotherapy. That look of relief that washes over their face and the shame melting away is an amazing experience both as a therapist and for the young people we work with.īibliotherapy is the use of literature to help children cope with and process emotional and behavioral difficulties and big life changes. BUT children get so much comfort in the fact that if someone actually wrote a book about something AND a publishing company felt it was so important to actually make the book – then they are not alone. Some children feel like they are the only ones to have gone through something or know what it feels like to have the feelings they have. I cannot describe how amazing it feels when a child feels seen and heard through bibliotherapy. I have been using bibliotherapy in my practice with children and young people nearly since day one. To say I am book obsessed is an understatement, and this love of books has been growing ever since I was little and had 5,873 books. The first thing I went out and bought when we found out we were pregnant was an amazon cart of books. Ok, maybe that is an overstatement BUT he does have a ton of books – like baskets upon baskets and shelves upon shelves.
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