Paper Title
E-Bibliotherapy, Computer Based Bibliotherapy – Development Perspectives in Relation to the Effectiveness, Reliability and Economy
Abstract
The nature of electronic bibliotherapy can be described by further specification of the universal definition of
bibliotherapy as the use of fixed texts as therapy, the particularity of which lies in the connectedness of the fixed text and the
therapeutic process with the electronic device. In addition to the book applied as a therapeutic tool, the use of computers and
the Internet has become increasingly significant in bibliotherapy, reflecting the widespread momentum and popularity
electronic devices are gaining in all fields of contemporary human culture. Viewed from the systems approach, ebibliotherapy
is a component of e-health, and more specifically, of e-mental-health. However, considering the remarkably
broad spectrum of application of e-bibliotherapy across the network of social institutions, as well as the effectiveness and
utility of electronic informational bibliotherapy, a modality of e-bibliotherapy, in all segments of healthcare services as
measured objectively in trials of psycho-pharmacotherapeutic compliance, e-bibliotherapy and electronic informational
bibliotherapy must be regarded as belonging to the complex system of e-health. Consequently, e-bibliotherapy development
opportunities can be realized in relation to e-health. Due to the wide range of applicability and the array of efficient and
reliable methods, e-bibliotherapy may contribute to reducing the global burden of disease after implementation of the
developments. The professionalization of e-bibliotherapy relies on the standard of education and training for bibliotherapists,
an area demonstrating considerable progress since bibliotherapy as a specialization is available in the form of taught and
research programs at undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels.
Index Terms – Bibliotherapy in higher education, booklists, computer based bibliotherapy CBB, e-bibliotherapy, ecreative/
therapeutic-writing, e-health, electronic information bibliotherapy EIB, e-mental-health, e-poetry-therapy, epsychotherapy,
professionalization of bibliotherapy, recorded/fixed texts in bibliotherapy, self help books, theory/definition
of bibliotherapy, verbal therapy, World Congress of Arts Therapies