Judit Béres and Viktória Tóth Bibliotherapy Database Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing Poster at BOBCATSSS 2017

1. Bibliotherapy Database
Promoting Mental Health & Wellbeing
Bibliotherapy Project Aims
This project has started within the 2-year-long post-
graduate bibliotherapy professional training of the
University of Pécs (Hungary). Since Spring 2016, as part
of the Central Europe 2020 Bibliotherapy Project, students
attending the Bibliotherapy Research seminar have
written bibliotherapeutic descriptions about the
interactive use of imaginative literature, non-fiction
materials and creative writing, focusing on the support of
people’s personal growth, mental health & wellbeing.
In 2017 January we have more than 400 descriptions as a
base for a future bibliotherapy database.
PROJECT AIMS
 provide theme-appropriate, personalized, annotated
information for individuals, parents, teachers,
librarians, and helper professionals who apply
individual and group bibliotherapy
 highlight quality literature of all kind as a life-support
system, promote reading & writing as mental health
tools
 build international links through items
relevant/available in national contexts & languages
APPLICATION SCHEMES
IN public libraries, schools, hospitals, waiting rooms,
care homes, shelter houses, crisis intervention, prisons,
rehab centers/relapse prevention, bereavement
counselling, palliative rehabilitation, psychiatric wards
FOR healthy population and people living with mild and
moderate mental health problems or facing normative life
crises e.g. adolescents, elderly, women, parents, parents-
to-be, teachers etc.
Detailed annotations:
recommended readings
based on real trials & written
by trained bibliotherapists.
Structure: Book byte/
Suggested readers/
Therapeutic insights/
Bibliographic description
Search by:
author/title/genre/topic/
target group; URL; trial
experiences; methodological
toolkit; help desk
Best practices: LibGuides,
A-Z reading recommendations,
thematic collections
Authors: Judit BÉRES & Viktória TÓTH
Dept. of LIS, University of Pécs, Hungary
Bibliotherapy Database
Design
HungarianInternational