About the Journal

The European Journal for Biblio/Poetry Therapy, sponsored and edited by cooperating associations and practitioners engaged in biblio/poetry therapy, is an online, open access, international and interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal published in a rolling publication system. The journal welcomes original contributions that present new knowledge about the role of language arts and biblio/poetry therapy in education, healthcare, and community building settings.

Papers are welcomed from researchers and practitioners working with language arts and metaphors in the fields of biblio/poetry therapy such as classical bibliotherapy, therapeutic writing modalities, and narrative approaches. Papers from researchers and practitioners who combine biblio/poetry therapy with other expressive arts techniques and modalities are also welcomed. The journal only publishes manuscripts written in English.

We publish theoretical, empirical and experimental research that aims to make a contribution to our understanding of the theory and practice of poetry therapy and bibliotherapy.

Accepted categories of publications are:

• methodological papers (introducing concrete tasks and outcomes of group and individual biblio/poetry therapy processes and sessions)

• case studies, brief reports (anonymized)

• evidence-based research (there is no restriction on research methods)

• theoretical papers (review and critique of the existing scientific literature and applied models of biblio/poetry therapy, or offering new models and frameworks)

• historical papers (focusing on national traditions of training, services and institutions of biblio/poetry therapy)

• book reviews (focusing on new resources, books relevant and available for international readers)