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Books on Prescription: Bibliotherapy in the United Kingdom

Liz Brewster Department of Information Studies, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
Pages 399-407 | Published online: 04 Nov 2009

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Hüseyin Çaksen. (2023) Use of Bibliotherapy in Patients with Epilepsy. Journal of Pediatric Epilepsy.
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Liz Brewster & Sarah McNicol. (2021) Bibliotherapy in practice: a person-centred approach to using books for mental health and dementia in the community. Medical Humanities 47:4, pages e12-e12.
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Walaa Hamdan, Lamia Al Duaijy & Yaser Al Sawy. (2020) Effectiveness of bibliotherapy in alleviating examination stress on college students: a quasi‐experimental trial. Health Information & Libraries Journal 38:3, pages 172-181.
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Agus Tri Susilo. (2020) Bibliocounseling. Bibliocounseling.
Gülcan Abbasoğulları. (2019) İBRAHİM HAKKI HAZRETLERİ’NİN ŞİİRLERİNİN BİBLİOTERAPİ BAĞLAMINDA DEĞERLENDİRİLMESİ. Trabzon İlahiyat Dergisi.
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Siti Arpah Noordin, Haslinda Husaini & Shamila Mohamad Shuhidan. (2017) Bibliotherapy in Public Libraries: A Conceptual Framework. International Journal of Learning and Teaching, pages 232-236.
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Sophie Carty, Louise Thompson, Sarah Berger, Katie Jahnke & Rebecca Llewellyn. (2016) Books on Prescription – community‐based health initiative to increase access to mental health treatment: an evaluation. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health 40:3, pages 276-278.
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Keren Dali. (2015) Readers’ advisory: can we take it to the next level?. Library Review 64:4/5, pages 372-392.
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Anneliese Ingham. (2014) Can your public library improve your health and well-being? An investigation of East Sussex Library and Information Service. Health Information & Libraries Journal 31:2, pages 156-160.
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