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Bibliotherapy: An Overview study to counselors and for librarian

P G DAMODHARAN

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Bibliotherapy in the use of literature with helps peoples cope with emotional problems and tough situation and also to help in personality growth and development in other words it is use of books for therapeutic purposes. And it is shelf help and motivated enthusiasm to all forms of energy to all persons like infants, child, college student, adult and old people and this paper mostly forfeit the view, benefit and uses to counselors and for librarian and history. Bibliotherapy expresses readings in certain selective information for the purpose to heal for individual relationship for the content of the books and rhymes of words as therapy. Bibliotherapy is often called as writing therapy and called to be an effective treatment
Keywords: Bibliotheraphy study, history, development, benefits to counselors, librarian, physician and role of librarian in bibliotherapy


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