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Rowena Perry BA Hons, PGDipLib, MCLIP Library Manager Health Informatics Shared Service Prospect Park Hospital Reading
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What is bibliotherapy?
The use of a self-help book to treat a disorder. highered.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0072986360/student_view0/c hapter19/glossary.html However not just any old self-help book will do
What is useful?
Good quality self help books Generally these are based on Cognitive Behavioural Therapy techniques - CBT is commonly based on the idea that how we think (cognition), how we feel (emotion and affect), and how we act (behaviour) all interact and go together. Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_behav ioral_therapy
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For eg
Books in the series Overcoming published by Constable and Robinson Mind over mood by Dennis Greenburger and Christine Padesky Woman in your own right by Anne Dickson Head Injury: a practical guide by Trevor Powell
Beware of SHAM
The Self-Help and Actualisation Movement.
For eg Men are from Mars, Woman are from Venus hardback, paperback, CD, audio cassette, calendar, book of days Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, Children Are from Heaven: How to Have Strong, Confident Children Mars and Venus Starting Over: A Practical Guide for Finding Love Again After a Painful Breakup, Divorce, or the Loss of Loved One (also available in large print)
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When is it useful?
When a patient has a mild or moderate mental health problem eg
Depression Panic disorder Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Anxiety
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Why do it?
Because it works and is cost effective? Because NICE say so? (NICE guidelines on depression, anxiety and eating disorders advocate the use of bibliotherapy as part of a stepped care programme.) It ticks lots of boxes both for the NHS and public libraries.
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