Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Guide to Bibliotherapy

by Pardeck; Jean A.

• ISBN13: 9780789001207
• ISBN10: 0789001209
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-02-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice: A Guide to Bibliotherapy introduces clinical social workers and other helping professionals to bibliotherapy, an innovative approach to helping individuals deal with psychological, social, and developmental problems. Literally meaning treatment through books,” bibliotherapy actively involves the client in the therapeutic process through the reading of carefully selected and evaluated books. With this guide, the therapy you give will provide information and insight, stimulate discussion, communicate new values and attitudes, create awareness that others have similar problems, and provide solutions to problems.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix	(2)
Preface	xi	(2)
Acknowledgments	xiii
Chapter 1. An Introduction to Bibliotherapy	1	(16)
Research on Bibliotherapy	2	(3)
Purpose and Goals	5	(1)
Values of Bibliotherapy	6	(1)
Principles of Bibliotherapy	7	(2)
Choosing Books	9	(1)
Using Books in Treatment	10	(4)
Implications for Practice	14	(3)
Chapter 2. Clinical Applications of Bibliotherapy	17	(20)
Bibliotherapy and Fiction Books	18	(3)
Bibliotherapy and Self-Help Books	21	(2)
Self-Help Books in Treatment	23	(2)
Critical Issues	25	(1)
Bibliotherapy and Group Treatment	26	(2)
Books, Human Development, and Groups	28	(2)
Group Skills and Bibliotherapy	30	(2)
Considerations of Conducting Bibliotherapy with Groups	32	(3)
Conclusion	35	(2)
Chapter 3. Clinical Problems and Bibliotherapy	37	(20)
Divorce and Remarriage	37	(3)
Dysfunctional Families	40	(2)
Parenting	42	(5)
Self-Development	47	(1)
Serious Illness	48	(2)
Substance-Related Disorders	50	(2)
Examples of Books on Divorce and Remarriage	52	(3)
Conclusion	55	(2)
Chapter 4. Useful Books for Clinical Intervention	57	(68)
Coverage and Scope	57	(1)
Entries	58	(1)
Indexes	58	(1)
Divorce and Remarriage	58	(7)
Dysfunctional Families	65	(8)
Parenting	73	(21)
Self-Development	94	(16)
Serious Illness	110	(5)
Substance-Related Disorders	115	(10)
Chapter 5. Bibliotherapy and Clinical Social Work	125	(8)
Bibliotherapy and Clinical Intervention	126	(1)
Managed Care and Self-Help Books	127	(1)
Fiction and Bibliotherapy	128	(1)
Nonfiction Self-Help Books and Bibliotherapy	129	(1)
Conclusion	130	(3)
References	133	(8)
Author Index	141	(6)
Title Index	147	(8)
Subject Index	155