The Use of Bibliotherapy in Classrooms for Gifted Students: A Bibliotherapy Model

Bibliotherapy is a technique that can be used with students who like reading and want to understand their inner self. Especially it can be used with gifted students to help them understand their personality characteristics and their differences from other students, and to provide them with scenarios to make empathy with main characters of stories and find solutions to their problems in stories. Unfortunately the prevailing idea about bibliotherapy is that only psychologists and psychological counselors can use it as a therapeutic tool. The aim of this paper is to defend that teachers also can use bibliotherapy in classrooms and to provide ideas and guidelines about how bibliotherapy can be used in the classroom. Based on an extensive literature review, a modelbibliotherapy was proposed. The implementation of the model is illustrated. Also the encouragement of bibliotherapy in classrooms for gifted students is argued.