Biblioterapi : En kvalitativ studie om tillämpad biblioterapi utanför Sverige

Sammanfattning: Bibliotherapy is a therapeutic method with book reading and dialogues about literature as its primary focus. It is a method that can be used for reading promotion purposes. Bibliotherapy is relatively unexplored in Sweden. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate how bibliotherapy is applied outside Sweden. The thesis deals with questions regarding what reading promotion activities as well as what work steps and work roles, within the framework of bibliotherapy, that appear in the empirical material. The thesis also discusses possible challenges and obstacles, related to the practice of bibliotherapy that appear in the empirical material. The analysis method is deductive, qualitative, thematic content analysis. The empirical material consists of twelve research articles. The theoretical framework is a psychological perspective on literature combined with reading bibliotherapy and interactive bibliotherapy.  It was found that bibliotherapy is applied in collaboration between libraries, health care, schools and social authorities. Bibliotherapeutic models/activities such as Books on prescription, Read Yourself Well (RYW), Reading and You Service/Schemes (RAYS) and Read aloud groups are common in United Kingdom, but several of them also occurs in Australia, Canada, Netherlands, South Africa and USA. Establishing cooperation partners, Choose literature, Lead book circles and Conversations about literature are current work steps/roles. Getting to know individuals deeply in order to be able to determine appropriate literature is a challenge, but it strengthens the psychological perspective on literature as a unifying link between bibliotherapy and reading promotion activities. Funding, Marketing and Lack of knowledge about bibliotherapy are other challenges.