Creative Literary Bibliotherapy

Examples of Good Practice 

Abstract

The paper focuses on the field of creative literary bibliotherapy with special emphasis on the implementation of bibliotherapy methods in the school library.

The goal is to show the theoretical basis, application of bibliotherapy and its positive impact on the selected population. The paper aims to apply bibliotherapy tools, provided by targeted literary works, in the experiential-cognitive process. The selected literary works include contemporary short stories and a problem picture book, suitable for the application of the MED cycle method.

The progress of bibliotherapy workshops, examples of good practice, intended for high school, elementary school and preschool children are presented. The works were selected taking into account the criteria of the participants' age, potential interest in the topic, the expected development of the discussion, with the aim of potential implementation of the offered solutions to their own life situations.