Using Books in Clinical Social Work Practice

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.

Jean A Pardeck

Contents Foreward - Preface - Acknowledgments - An Introduction to Bibliotherapy - Clinical Applications of Bibliotherapy - Clinical Problems and Bibliotherapy - Useful Books for Clinical Intervention - Bibliotherapy and Clinical Social Work - References - Author Index - Title Index - Subject Index