Bibliotherapy with children can facilitate understanding

child assessment

Purpose

Bibliotherapy with children can facilitate understanding and support therapeutic goals. The purpose of this activity is to identify a book to target a therapeutic goal while considering development and cultural considerations.

Task

Choose a children's book you might use in therapy. This assignment will have two parts a) a 1-2-page paper (see below for details) & b) a presentation in class.

1. Paper: a summary of the book, what do you think the therapeutic focus of the book is (what would you try and target with the book), what is the developmental age range you think would be most appropriate for the book, what questions/ activities might you do to expand the use of the book? What are some cultural considerations? Please upload to Canvas in assignments for grading.

2. Presentation: Be prepared to do a presentation in class including reading the book (maybe a partial meeting, if the book is longer than the allotted time) and summarizing your write-up (15 minutes).