• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.241-268
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• 2010

The aim of this study explores the task of bibliotherapy for expansion of library service. There are three subjects for a study. First, I consider the position of bibliotherapy in library community. Second, I examine the outcomes and the critical point of an experimental bibliotherapy program conducted in Korean Library since 2000's. Third, I find out the tasks of bibliotherapy for expansion of library service. It is four tasks that have the problem of bibliotherapy terminology, the librarian's understanding and acceptance about bibliotherapy, education and training for bibliotherapy in department of library science and plans for the expansion of bibliotherapy service.

• Journal of Fisheries and Marine Sciences Education
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• v.21 no.1
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• pp.43-51
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to develop bibliotherapy program based upon literature units of Korean language textbook and to test it's effect on self-esteem of middle school students. Sixty-nine female middle school students participated in this study. Thirty-four students were assigned to experimental group and thirty-five ones were assigned to control group. Subjects completed Self-Esteem Inventory. Data analyses were conducted using t-test and ANCOVA. The results of the analyses revealed that subjects of experimental group showed significantly higher scores on self-esteem than ones of control group. Based upon the above results, it is concluded that bibliotherapy program based upon literature units of Korean language textbook was effective in improving self-esteem of female middle school students.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.41 no.4
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• pp.383-402
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• 2010

This study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of bibliotherapy on the levels of cognitive function, depression, and social behavior in the elderly with mild dementia. For this quasi-experimental research, a total of 166 subjects the age of from 90 to 65 were selected of the 166, were divided into the experimental group and control group for six months. These findings confirmed that the dementia Bibliotherapy program made a contribution to improve cognitive function and social behavior, and to reduce depression in the elderly with mild dementia. Therefore, it is recommended that this program be used in clinical practice as an effective Bibliotherapy program for the elderly with mild dementia.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.42 no.2
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• pp.51-68
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• 2008

The research which sees in the object, fundamental data under providing should have boiled 40 housewife students who are in the process of attending in the SOHAE college attempted about the effect which the bibliotherapy program reaches in stress decrement of the middle-aged woman. The result first, before bibliotherapy of the experimental group the stress degree was average 44.5%, after bibliotherapy the stress 10.25% degree came to be low with 34.25%. Second, recording where the private talk people all bibliotherapy which participated to a clinical bibliotherapy seems will be advanced the condition which is stabilized emotionally very, the stress relaxation which leads the bibliotherapy which is continuous and to seem in the family life management which is healthy strong desire.

• Journal of Family Relations
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.103-130
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• 2017

Objective: This study explored benefits of a bibliotherapy program using picture books for self-growth supporting married Immigrant Women settle down as a healthy member of the Korean society. Method: This intervention program was implemented on twelve married immigrant women (and another twelve women as a control group), and their self-esteem and social competence before and after the intervention were examined. In addition, the researcher kept observation journals and conducted post-program interviews with the participants after the completion of the program to understand the changes in family relationships. Result: The results of this study are as follows: (1) the self-esteem scores of participants had increased after the intervention program, however, there was not significant differences between control and experimental groups, (2) the experiment group made more progress in improving social competence, and (3) the study confirmed through qualitative analysis that the program made positive contributions to improving the participants' quality of family relationships. Conclusion: Based on these results, implications for further research and practices were discussed.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.16 no.10
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• pp.6992-7005
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• 2015

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of Bibliotherapy Program for competency enhancement in nursing students. A quasi-experimental design was employed in this study. Participants for the study were 24 nursing students, 10 in the experimental group and 14 in the control group. This Program was conducted on the experimental group once a week for 90~120minutes/session during 10weeks(9session). Data were analyzed by using the SPSS/WIN. 21.0 program with ${\chi}^2$ test, t-test and two-way ANOVA. As a result, Participants in the bibliotherapy reported significantly different in total competency(F=10.62, p=.001) scores from those in the control group. Components of competence were significant differences in the Basic competencies(F=8.74, p=.001) and Practical competencies(F=8.58, p=.001) scores, but the Results competence in citizenship competency(F=.229, p=0.797), there was no significant difference. This Program was effective in increasing competency(basic competencies and practical competencies) for nursing students. Therefore, this approach is recommended as enhance the competency strategy for nursing students.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.25 no.4
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• pp.129-146
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• 2014

This study aims to present the effects that a bibliotherapy program based on picture books and paper craft art activities had on middle school students' stress recognition and the changes in their reactions. To this end, we adopted an experimental research design model with pre/post-test measurements of stress recognition and reactions using first grade middle school students with emotional difficulties. The results show that a bibliotherapy program based on picture books and paper craft art activities does have significant effects on the stress recognition and reactions of middle school students. The 5 of 5 sub-domains of the stress recognition had significant difference. The sub-domains are: family environment, friends, study, teacher/school. The 6 of 7 sub-domains of the stress reactions except fatigue had significant difference. The sub-domains are: tention, frustration, anger, depression, somatization, aggression.

• The Korean Journal of Elementary Counseling
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• v.8 no.1
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• pp.1-13
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• 2009

The purpose of this study was to develop a group bibliotherapy program for improvement of elementary school students' self-esteem and to examine its effects. The subjects in this study were 20 children who were selected from 120 sixth graders at H elementary school in Gwangju Metropolitan city. They are randomly allocated at experiment group(n=10) and control group(n=10). Twelve sessions were administrated to experiment group for group bilbiotherapy and each session had run 40 minutes. Data were collected through the self-esteem inventory which was originated from Coopersmith's Self-Esteem Inventory(1967) and Chang(2001) translated and modified and the researcher remodified for this study. The collected data were analysed through ANCOVA. Research results were as followings. First, the experimental group showed a significant increase in the level as compared with the control group. Second, the experimental group showed significant increase in the level of general Self-Esteem, social Self-Esteem, homely Self-Esteem, but showed no significant increase in the level of schoolwork Self-Esteem as compared with the control group. The results showed that the group bibliotherapy has significant effect on the improvement of elementary school students self-esteem.