Reading

Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why - not by instruction or prescription but by emotion and exploration. Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups based on the work of The Reader, a charity dedicated to bringing serious literature...

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Main Authors Davis, Philip (Author), Magee, Fiona (Author)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020.
EditionFirst edition.
SeriesArts for health
Subjects
Books and reading.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781838673079
9781838673055
DOI10.1108/9781838673055
Physical Description1 online resource (168 pages)

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505 0 |a Intro -- Half Title Page -- ARTS FOR HEALTH -- Copyright Page -- Title Page -- Contents -- Series Preface: Creative Public Health -- Introductory Note -- 1: Why Reading? -- Notes -- 2: What Helps? -- Quantitative Measures, Self-reporting Questionnaires, and Interviews -- Language Analysis -- Physiological Measures -- Conclusion: The Whole Thing -- Notes -- 3: Who Can Benefit? -- Some Children -- Some Adults -- Older Adults -- Notes -- 4: How to Engage with Reading? -- Section 1: What Is Engaged Reading? -- Section 2: How to Do This Kind of Engaged Reading? -- Things To Do -- On My Own -- Things to do on my own (1): Try the reading app -- Things to do on my own (2): Making notes or writing a reading diary -- Things to Do -- With Others -- Things to Do -- for Others -- Things to See and Hear -- Notes -- 5: What Can Professionals Do to Help? -- Against 'Professionalism' -- In Favour of the Practical -- Starting Up -- Getting In -- Staying In -- Breaking Through -- It's Not Over -- Contexts for the Delivery of Shared Reading -- Family Home -- Care Homes -- Health Care Settings -- Prisons and Secure Settings -- Notes -- 6: What are the Challenges and How to Overcome Them? -- Public and Social Challenges You Face -- Further Professional and Practical Challenges -- The Challenge of Choice: Who Chooses What? -- The Challenge of Resistance -- 1. Arthur -- 2. Mark -- 3. Heather -- Notes -- 7: Useful Links and Further Reading -- Links -- Suggested Further Reading -- Index. 
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