Reading Books to Kids can Help them Deal with Social Struggles - National Reading Campaign National Reading Campaign. Readers’ Advisory, Bibliotherapy, and Grief in YA Literature – The Hub. The benefits of reading go beyond entertainment and into therapeutic tools when focusing on loss and grief in young adult literature.
This year, the practice of bibliotherapy celebrates 100 years* in assisting mental health professionals and readers cope with many issues through informed choices about reading material. It is especially relevant to young adult readers in understanding loss and the grief process. Teenagers today are said to have higher levels of anxiety and depression and informed readers’ advisory creates an opportunity to help teens by using the comfort and familiarity of reading. Bibliotherapy. Bibliotherapy, a therapeutic approach that uses literature to support good mental health, is a versatile and cost-effective treatment option often adapted or used to supplement other types of therapy.
Proponents of the approach suggest mild to moderate symptoms of several mood-related conditions can be successfully treated with reading activities. Both individual and group therapy may utilize this method, which is considered appropriate for children, adolescents, and adults. Mental health professionals may encourage those in therapy and those who are waiting for therapy to read for guidance or self-help, developmental purposes, to learn about mental health concerns, and for the therapeutic benefits of imaginative literature.
History and Development of Bibliotherapy Storytelling, creative writing, and reading have long been recognized for their therapeutic potential. How Bibliotherapy Can Help Students Open Up About Their Mental Health. For adolescents struggling with depression, anxiety and grief, the use of books as a therapeutic tool can be invaluable. Tweens and teens often get stuck in their narratives, believing that the fictional stories they tell themselves are accurate. Because of the insecurities that adolescence can bring, it’s easy for them to assume that being excluded from a peer’s birthday party or being left out of a group text exchange is a personal affront. Social media often fuel these beliefs, which can take a toll on a youth's mental health.
Shame and stigma often prevent students from speaking out and seeking the emotional support they need. But reading about a fictional character’s experiences can normalize those feelings and give adolescents the courage to open up about their own struggles. Can Reading Make You Happier? Several years ago, I was given as a gift a remote session with a bibliotherapist at the London headquarters of the School of Life, which offers innovative courses to help people deal with the daily emotional challenges of existence.
I have to admit that at first I didn’t really like the idea of being given a reading “prescription.” I’ve generally preferred to mimic Virginia Woolf’s passionate commitment to serendipity in my personal reading discoveries, delighting not only in the books themselves but in the randomly meaningful nature of how I came upon them (on the bus after a breakup, in a backpackers’ hostel in Damascus, or in the dark library stacks at graduate school, while browsing instead of studying). BIBLIOTHERAPY PROCESS AND TYPE ANALYSIS: REVIEW OF POSSIBILITIES TO USE IT IN THE LIBRARY. About Bibliotherapy - R4R @ Rutgers: Reading for Recovery - Research Guides at Rutgers University. Ackerson, J., Scogin, F., McKendree-Smith, N.
& Lyman, R. D. (1998). Cognitive bibliotherapy for mild and moderate adolescent depressive symptomatology. How My School Library Embraces Social Emotional Learning. Anita Cellucci, 2016 SLJ School Librarian of the Year Finalist, designed programs to encourage mindfulness and support mental health.
Cellucci (bottom left) with a student-led book discussion groupPhoto courtesy of Anita Cellucci Creating a space that is judgment-free has always been high on my list of ways to make a library welcoming, comfortable, and safe. When I was a child, I visited the public library daily after school and inhaled the smells, the silence, and all that was represented in the space—knowledge, freedom, and predictability. I knew I wanted this at my high school library as well. YALS Winter 2019 Final. How to Become More Mindful in Your Everyday Life. The practice of mindfulness—directing all of your attention and awareness to the present—can bring many benefits to your emotional and physical health, as well as to the relationships in your life.
Among its many benefits, practicing everyday mindfulness can: Pull you out of the negative downward spiral that can be caused by too much daily stress, too many bad moods, or the habit of rumination.Help you make fewer errors when processing your experiences.Help you put stressful events into perspective and build resilience so you're less overwhelmed by them in the future. And while there are many mindfulness exercises you can practice on a regular basis, learning how to be present in the moment is also a way of life. With practice, you can learn to live a more mindful life that allows you to become more conscious of everything you are doing.
5 Ways SEL Can Help Your Class Become a More Inclusive Community. Our students come to our classrooms with a lot to offer.
The cultural assets that they bring are unique, and when we hear, promote, and lift up our students’ voices, we create classroom communities where students feel a sense of belonging and safety. The question is, how do we create inclusive classroom communities? One of the most effective tools is social and emotional learning (SEL). Benefits of SEL. The research documenting the impact of SEL is compelling.
More than two decades of research demonstrates that education promoting social and emotional learning (SEL) gets results. The findings come from multiple fields and sources, including student achievement, neuroscience, health, employment, psychology, classroom management, learning theory, economics, and the prevention of youth problem behaviors. Hear from our CEO: Updated SEL Definition (Dec 2020) SEL interventions that address CASEL’s five core competencies increased students’ academic performance by 11 percentile points, compared to students who did not participate in such SEL programs. Courting Libraries. Crimes like murder or arson require a traditional court of justice.
Crimes like graffiti or shoplifting don’t have to. That’s the reasoning behind the community-court model, which has been around since the early 1990s. Designed with restorative justice in mind, community courts typically focus on nonviolent cases. The legally binding sentences they issue usually include community service as well as a commitment on the part of the defendant to get help, such as drug treatment or other health care. The Library as a Support System for Students - Odin L. Jurkowski, 2006. Reflecting on student mental health: Creating a meditation room in a small college library. A Social Justice Mission: Libraries, Employment and Entrepreneurship. The World Day of Social Justice focuses on the steps that need to be taken to ensure that globalisation and change benefits everyone.
The new opportunities brought should give all who can the chance to find decent work, or start their own business. While libraries have traditionally been considered more focused on education and culture, they have an important role in supporting broader social justice goals. Through providing access to information, both traditionally and digitally, through developing new courses and services to help users, and through tailoring approaches to those who need it, they are having a real impact. With Sustainable Development Goal 8 (Decent Work and Growth) in focus this year, this paper explores some of the examples presented at World Library and Information Congresses of what libraries can do. The School-to-Prison Pipeline.
Research Proposal Megan Price. KNOW 48 3 OE SocialJustice. Detroit, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., Are 'Book Deserts' Where Poor Kids Have Nothing to Read. Just a couple of miles north of Anacostia, for example, in the borderline Washington neighborhood known as Capitol Hill, Neuman and Moland found more than 2,000 children’s print resources in stores—i.e., a book for every two kids. While still equipped with relatively few reading resources, the borderline neighborhoods the researchers studied, overall, had 16 times as many books as their high-poverty counterparts. Equating access to books with access to stores that sell books is hardly perfect, but it makes a good deal of sense when considering the existing data on the book habits and day-to-day realities of low-income families. Statistically, poor families are far less likely to utilize public libraries, whether it’s because they’re not acclimated to using them or because they’re worried about being charged late fines, or because they’re skeptical of putting their name on a card associated with a government entity.
Starting with I: Combating Anti Blackness in Libraries.