A Study on Emotional Healing Efficacy of Picture Books for Senior High and Vocational High School Students Encountering Self-identity Problems in Taiwan
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Sun, Sheng-Hsin
Abstract
The fast pace of modern society often leaces people feeling frustrated with psychological emptiness. Unable to find efficient ways to deal with their negative emotions, young people in particular, who are at the stage of building their self-indentity, tend to experience depressing feelings. With the purpose to explore the emotional healing efficacy of developmental bibliotherapy with picture books for regular senior high and vocational high school students encountering self-identity problems, this study adopts a qualitative method, which employs content analysis to collect 16 picture books, and interviews 18 students from high school and vocational high school with semi-structured in-depth questions. Moreover, this study uses assisted questionaires on the interviewees to ensure the validity of the data collected from them. The results indicate that negative emotionas of senior high and vocational high school students often come from their unsatisfying career development, which later becomes (1)” personal identity” emotion disturbances, (2) “social identity” disturbances which affect their peer relationship and is also another source of depression, and (3) “image identity, the last type of self-identity problems. Unfortunately, when students encounter self-identity problems, they tend not to take the initiative action to ask for professional help, but they sooth themselves by listening to music, reading fictions, watching TV dramas. The findings also show that the 16 picture books adopted in this research to help students with self-identity problems have emotional healing efficacy for both senior high and vocational high school students. To be more specific, factors such as plot, characterization, setting, theme, point of view, and style of the picture books affect emotional healing efficacy. Based on the findings, the researcher provided some suggestions. First, senior high and vocational high school students can apply developmetal bibliotherapy with picturebooks to sooth self-identity emotional disturbances. Second, teachers can apply picture books with emotional healing efficacy in their counseling plans. Third, teachers can also intergrate picture books into their curriculum. Fourth, high school libraries can provide picture books, fictions, comics, music, etc. to students who are in need of developmental bibliotherapy.
Subjects
picture book
developmental bibliotherapy
self-identity
high school student
vocational high school student
Type
thesis
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