A Study on the Criteria of Book Selection and Qquestion-forming for Counseling with Book-reading

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The purpose of this study is to provide counsellors with helpful advice for counselling with book-reading; First of all, we review the psychiatric issues that challenge Korean pre-schoolers and adolescents (up to the age 24) and the issues that can be aided by book-reading counselling. Secondly, we develop a set of criteria to select relevant books for the counsellee, and this criteria should be dependent on the major issues of the counsellee. Thirdly, we also suggest a package of questions which are generated based on the principles of psychotherapy and teaching of reading. The series of questions should be split into 3 parts: pre-reading, during-reading, and post-reading. The questions need to guide counsellee to find characters or events in a book for identification or projection, to accommodate himself/herself to indirect experience through book-reading, to help himself/herself undergo catharsis, and to facilitate himself/herself to integrate new learning from the reading with his/her own problem, so (s)he can gain new insight into solving his/her own psychiatric issues. We plan to conduct follow-up research which will explore counsellees with multicultural backgrounds and apply to them the principles and method this current study suggests. We will provide book-reading counselling to them and the course of counselling will be researched quantitatively and qualitatively as well. The course of action between counsellors and counsellees will be thoroughly reviewed qualitatively and the efficacy of the program will be examined quantitatively.

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