Bibliotherapy use in higher education as a support for self help: implementation of a project with learners in monograph process phase

Abstract

The choice of this theme, which will be discussed, has as purpose: a) identify, reflect and bring to discussion, practices, pedagogic and family projections related to the use of bibliotherapy, that induces the university community to future interactions and to reading practices; b) undertake a plain analysis of the aspects related to bibliotherapy to support the training of cognitive subject, its implications and benefits. It will be reported, methodologically, experiences in a particular college in the city of Valencia, bringing to light the level of stress of the eighth semester pedagogy students of Educational Sciences Faculty – FACE. Data were collected by statistical methods, social meaning of bibliotherapy as a way to develop the critical sense of the subject in the age of technological advance, self-help to combat stress in academic journey. We hope that these sets of reflections are useful to promote the issue, encourage the use of bibliotherapy under a playful and fanciful prism, and also, to recover the art of dream, understood as an universal law, that contributes to reduce depression, stress and aggressivity, acting directly for the relief of Bahians university students’ psychological tensions.