Análise da literatura sobre a utilização da biblioterapia como coadjuvante em tratamentos psicológicos

Abstract

It is a research that aims to analyse Bibliotherapy as an experience that uses directed readings as sources with the purpose of subsidizing individual’s treatments who are confronted with some kind of psychological or other type of difficulty. In order to do so, it was undertaken the following course guided by the objectives: to analyse the Brazilian literature about bibliotherapy published in the cyberspace between the 2000-2017 period, taking into consideration its applicability as a coadjutant in the treatment of psychological conflicts. This is an exploratory research in which, through a literature review, it was sought to understand the concept of bibliotherapy, describe its history, as well as its applications and the various types of this thematic. The empirical research was done by using an Integrative Bibliographic Review (IBR) to evaluate if bibliotherapy is an option as help for the treatment of psychological conflicts. The study was carried out through an analysis in the corpus of 10 published works, having previously established a search strategy that contained the following terms: bibliotherapy, psychological treatment, and psychotherapy elements. In order to do so, we verified the titles, abstracts and keywords, observing whether those terms had a link with the content addressed, following this way one of the steps in IBR that deals with the validation of the selected works. The results of the analysis point out that all works ratify that bibliotherapy can be a coadjutant in a treatment, but some of them present this in a very superficial way. It is concluded that in the last seventeen years – the period delimited by this research, one thousand eight hundred and eighty on Brazilian bibliotherapy were published. In regards to the strengths and weaknesses discussed in the ten works, we evince that although all of them approached the subject, many of them didn’t delve into the conceptualization of the history, in the use of bibliotherapy, nor in the elements of psychotherapy that give fundamental support to its practice.