Children's emotional and behavioural problems are an area that covers a very wide spectrum. In their workplaces, social pedagogues meet children who require different approaches and ways of working. The main purpose of the master's thesis is to enrich the methods of social pedagogy through an approach based on the use of literature. The aim is to develop a method that will be adapted to work with children with emotional and behavioural problems. The method is based on bibliotherapy. This is basically a method of work that works preventively through books and conversation and helps with various psychosocial problems. This is thus explored in the field of bibliotherapy, and definitions, forms and methods of use are given. First, it describes the development of a child in early, middle and late childhood, where cognitive, emotional and reading development are captured. The following is a chapter that includes a description of emotional and behavioural problems, their definitions and forms. The third part is intended for learning about bibliotherapy in Slovenian and world literature.
Since there is a lack of research in Slovenia that has dealt with bibliotherapy, especially in the field of social pedagogy, the empirical part is dedicated to this. A tailored form of bibliotherapy, named bibliomethod, was performed and analysed with children with emotional and behavioural problems. The meetings were held as reading hours with a group of eight children at the Malči Belič Youth Centre in Ljubljana. Seven meetings were held and analysed through evaluation of participating children and educators, children's products and observation of the meeting manager. Based on the analysis of these meetings and the professional literature, a socio-pedagogical method called bibliomethod was developed. The described bibliomethod is intended as a tool for all professionals who would like to include books in their work with children with emotional and behavioural problems. On the basic skeleton of bibliomethod, professionals can add and co-shape it, based on their own experience and the needs of the group of children with whom they work.
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