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Title:

Introducing Bibliotherapy in Public Libraries of Jaffna District- An Exploratory Study

Group publication title:

Przegląd Biblioterapeutyczny

Subject and Keywords:

Reading therapy   Bibliotherapy   Bibliotherapy - Library services   Bibliotherapy-Public libraries

Abstract:

This study investigates the role of the public library sector of Jaffna district in Northern Sri Lanka towards providing bibliotherapy as a service to the war- affected people seeking help in solving their problems. Using Survey research method, collected data was analyzed to find out the awareness of the concept, acceptance of bibliotherapy as method of treatment, existence and suitability of bibliotherapy in public libraries and the attitude of the librarians to be a bibliotherapist. The study suggests the possibility of implementing bibliotherapy in public libraries of Jaffna district with the support of health authorities.

Place of publishing:

Sopot

Publisher:

Wydawnictwo "Smak Słowa"

Date issued:

2014

Resource Type:

text

Detailed Type:

article

Identifier:

ISSN 2084-1353

Source:

Psch Cz.239

Language:

eng

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Access rights:

Attribution, Non-Commercial, ShareAlike

License:

Creative Commons - Attribution, Non-Commercial, NoDerivatives (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)   click here to follow the link

Rights holder:

Copyright by Department of Psychology, Faculty of Historical and Pedagogical Sciences, University of Wrocław   Copyright by Instytut Psychologii, Wydział Nauk Historycznych i Pedagogicznych, Uniwersytet Wrocławski

Autor opisu:

TK