Jean A. Pardeck

An Exploration of the Uses of Children's Books as an Approach for Enhancing Cultural Diversity.

Childrens books can be used as an effective tool for teaching able‐bodied children about the unique needs of children with disabilities. This article offers strategies for using books as a tool for helping able‐bodied children understand that disabilities are an important aspect of cultural diversity. A list of childrens books focusing on the topic of disabilities is offered.

Treating abused children through bibliotherapy

This article discusses using the bibliotherapeutic technique to treat children who have been abused. Several appropriate childrens books dealing with abuse are mentioned. The application of bibliotherapy with abused children is discussed, as well as its limitations.

Bibliotherapy: A tool for helping preschool children deal with developmental change related to family relationships

This article suggests that Childrens Literature can be used as an effective tool to help preschool children deal with developmental change related to family relationships. The use of literature in this manner is known as bibliotherapy. Appropriate childrens books are described that focus on family relationships.

Recommended Books for Helping Young Children Deal with Social and Development Problems

This article outlines strategies for helping young children deal with social and developmental problems through reading. The technical term for using reading as a tool for assisting children with social and developmental problems is commonly called bibliotherapy. The authors offer recommended books in a number of problem areas that often confront young children.

The effects of day care: A critical analysis

Maternal employment has increased over the last thirty years in the USA. The result of this increase means more families are in need of day‐care for their children. Examined in this paper are research findings on the effects of day‐care on pre‐school children and their families. The implications of these findings for policy development are critically discussed. Currently in the USA, over 50% of mothers work outside the home; this figure is expected to rise to 75% by 1990. The fastest growing segment of the working mother population is among those with children under two (Zigler and Gordon, 1982). This increasing rate of maternal employment over the last two decades has created the need for alternative arrangements for infants and young children. There is some concern among child developmental specialists that these alternative arrangements of caremay have detrimental effects on a childs social and psychological development. Much of the concern about substitute care is based on the theory and research rel...

The Elementary School Counselor: A Role Definition

ABSTRACT The elementary school years are crucial to a childs total social and emotional development. In order to facilitate the childs total development during the elementary school years, he or she must have ready access to an elementary school counselor. Elementary school children who feel comfortable with and have been in contact with a school counselor will probably not hesitate to use the services of the counselor later in their school years. It is for this reason that elementary counselors must carefully examine their unique role and functions within the framework of the elementary school. This paper presents such an analysis.

Helping Children Adjust to Adoption through the Bibliotherapeutic Approach

Bibliotherapy is an emerging treatment approach that literally means treating through books. Both professionals and non-professionals have found bibliotherapy to be a useful treatment technique. As a helping strategy, it has proved useful for working with development, adjustment, and complex clinical problems. In the 1930s, Drs. Karl Menninger and William Menninger were early advocates of bibliotherapy as a treatment tool by not only professionals, but also laypersons. Over recent years we have published a number of articles on strategies for using bibliotherapy for various problems including helping children deal with divorce, the changing family and child abuse (Pardeck and Pardeck, 1985; Pardeck and Pardeck, 1987b; Pardeck and Pardeck, 1984). In our recent book, Young people with problems: a guide to bibliotherapy (1984), over twenty studies are reported which suggest that bibliotherapy is an effective treatment strategy. The research literature also suggests that those who work with children experiencing difficulties can use bibliotherapy effectively. The bibliotherapeutic approach is helpful in working with children for the following reasons. First, the child reads about others who have solved similar problems, and with the support of the helping person, gains insight into alternative solutions to use. Second, through books, a child can see how others have encountered anxieties and frustrations, hopes and disappointments, failures and successes, and then apply this insight toward meeting real-life situations. Third, bibliotherapy can also be a tool for preventing some difficult situations developing (Pardeck and Pardeck, 1987a). In other words, bibliotherapy can be used for helping children deal with various problems of childhood, as well as for preventing personal troubles from becoming problems that interfere with social functioning.

Helping Children Adjust to Adoption through the Bibliotherapeutic Approach.

Bibliotherapy is an emerging treatment approach that literally means treating through books. Both professionals and non‐professionals have found bibliotherapy to be a useful treatment technique. As a helping strategy, it has proved useful for working with development, adjustment, and complex clinical problems.

Using bibliotherapy to help children adjust to changing role models

With more mothers working outside the home, the changing role of fathers, and the division of labor shifting within the family system, children today are faced with conflicts concerning their sex-role development. One helpful technique to assist children in adjusting to changing role models is bibliotherapy--the use of childrens books to facilitate identification with and exploration of sex-role behavior. A brief outline of the bibliotherapeutic process, techniques for implementing bibliotherapy, and examples of current childrens literature dealing with sex-role development will all be discussed.