TITLE:
Bibliotherapy as an Alternative Approach to Children’s Emotional Disorders
AUTHORS:
Ajayi Nathaniel Akinola
KEYWORDS:
Bibliotherapy, Behavioral Disorders, Youth, Good Books, Correctional Therapy and Emotional Disorders
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.14,
August
20,
2014
ABSTRACT: The alternative
approach to solving children emotional and behavioral disorders is the use of
bibliotherapy. Many African youths today are undergoing traumatic democratic
governance, fear of future and a crazy for materialism and books can be used to
address the menace. The objectives of this paper therefore are to find out why
and how bibliotherapy can be administered as a correctional therapy for
children undergoing emotional and behavioral disorders. Good book selection,
individual guidance and skilled therapist increase intellectual soundness of
children.