Upon completion of this programme, students will be expected to be able to: know how to use the bibliotherapeutic process in its different phases to design, implement and test bibliotherapy activities in different contexts with people of all age groups; acquire the necessary skills to integrate bibliotherapy into one's profession; acquire knowledge of narratology and literature for the choice of books suitable for bibliotherapy; learn the fundamentals of children's and adolescent literature, including illustrated books; know the main framework of general psychology and group dynamics; explore the main techniques of bibliotherapy and learn how to apply them: poetry therapy, narrative medicine, philosophy of storytelling; acquiring knowledge about the learning processes of adults, adults with SLD/Specific Learning Disorder, and adults learning Italian as a second language; use the main marketing techniques for the promotion of bibliotherapy work; be familiar with bibliotherapy activities at the international level, with particular attention to the model of the University of Pécs, regarded as the best in Europe; acquire expressive reading skills with texts in prose and poetry, necessary for leading groups and face-to-face relations using different types of texts and techniques provided by bibliotherapy.

Bibliotherapy is a discipline that has been used in different parts of the world for over a century. Based on the available scientific literature, training objectives have been set to enable Italian professionals to include it in their own skills. The programme will therefore begin by analysing the bibliotherapy process as a tool to manage a bibliotherapy project from design to the practical implementation. In addition, students will be able to acquire an additional set of knowledge and skills about project implementation. The modules covering applied literature, expressive reading, philosophy of narration, poetry therapy, children's literature, narrative medicine and international models of bibliotherapy, will enable students to put their bibliotherapy skills into practice. A further training objective will be to develop the skills necessary to apply bibliotherapy in one's own professional context.

Bibliotherapy is suitable for educators, teachers of all levels, support teachers, librarians, philosophers, counsellors, nurses, psychologists, psychiatric rehabilitation technicians, social workers, cultural mediators. Their bibliotherapy skills will allow them to find employment opportunities in public and private facilities because of their ability to design, lead and monitor personal growth groups or face-to-face activities, achieving set goals independently or in collaboration with other professionals.

Bibliotherapy can be used in clinical settings (hospitals, RSA, hospices, rehabilitation centres), in libraries, associations (e.g. centres for the integration of migrants, for women victims of violence, etc.), schools of all levels, prisons, adult education centres, with minors at social risk.

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