Bibliotherapy for intern children at the hospital universitary of ufsc: an experience

Abstract

Bibliotherapy developed by professor and students from Course of Library-Science of Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina to hospitalized children. The first purpose was to humanize the process of treatment of children making the reading of stories with therapeutic purposes. The utilized methodology was the reading in group and individual reading. Some resourses was utilized like music, dramatic art, storytelling and engraving. The appriser was founded on the ranson of children’s impression about the stories that was read by that children, about observations of the coordinator of the reading program, in testimony of academics who give collaboration to the bibliotherapeutic project and the impression of the psychologist of paediatries division of hospital. The results obtained confirms that bibliotherapy takes to the pacification of emotions by satisfaction of aesthetic needs.