Impact of bibliotherapy on resilience in special needs children during divorce

Abstract

Although cognitive intervention programs are used for special needs children who have difficulties such as resilience and problem solving in which their families are in the divorce process, studies on the use of bibliotherapy are very limited. It was investigated whether this assistive technique, which is thought to be both improving and entertaining, has a positive effect on the resilience and interpersonal problem-solving skills of two siblings with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and learning disabilities (LD). Bibliotherapy method able to improve competence capability of the children experienced process of divorce through generating an inherent mechanism over psychological, social and emotional problems they face to while reconstituting their lives as they preferred. Qualitative research method was used in the study. Questions in this method were asked about insight, catharsis, and generalization and open-ended and semi open-ended questions, activity applications of the research agenda and the problem-solving inventory for primary school children was used pre and post intervention as a checklist for data gathering tools. It was concluded that bibliotherapy was effective in improving resilience and problem-solving conversion of negative attitudes of the children with their parents in a process of divorce into positive.