The mental health of students is a pressing challenge for schools. Students are struggling with a variety of emotional and psychological issues. Libraries, as one of the last bastions of equitable access, often emerge as a place of safety for students in crisis. However, few librarians have the mental health training to help these students. What we do have is books, programming, and a productive relationship with our counseling departments. To respond to this crisis, librarians and school counselors can work together to create a variety of programs around bibliotherapy. In this webinar, school librarian Ida Mae Craddock and school counselor Ouida Powe will talk about how these two demonstrably different departments can work together to support the mental health of all of our students.
Watch this webinar on-demand to learn:
- More about bibliotherapy and how it can support student mental health and the wellness of your school community
- Strategies to implement bibliotherapy programming in your school library
- How to implement and sustain meaningful collaboration practices between the library and school counselors
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