Proposta de intervenção de biblioterapia no Asilo Nossa Senhora da Conceição (SAME) em Aracaju/SE

Abstract

Bibliotherapy is a branch of Information Sciences and developed within the Library specifically, characterized as an alternative therapeutic treatment through the care of the human being, which can be applied to all publics and institutions. Of a multidisciplinary nature, it has aspects that connect it with related areas to bring benefits to the affective memory and promotion of bienestar, not limited to books, put the resources to work with Bibliotherapy are diverse. With this, in the present work, objectives were outlined for the applicability of the Bibliotherapy in the Nossa Senhora da Conceição Home (SAME) in Aracaju/SE, but with the Covid-19 pandemic it was not possible because it was a group of risk, so that it was necessary to realign the objectives, as presented, general objective: to develop a proposal for intervention of Bibliotherapy to be applied in the Nossa Senhora da Conceição asylum (SAME). Specific objectives: to diagnose the characteristics and profile of older adults in SAME; discover readings/resources that have therapeutic potential to work on the affective memory of elderly people and identify studies of librarianship practices for elderly people. The methodology used was exploratory and descriptive with a qualitative approach through the bibliographic survey. As an instrument for data collection, an interview with an on-site visit, an orientation questionnaire was previously prepared with closed and open questions for both the researcher and the interviewee. Despite all the impasses that occurred during the pandemic for the realization of the initial proposal of this work, it was possible to conclude that Bibliotherapy can be a form of therapeutic treatment for the elderly, and the reading activities already developed by Psychology professionals found a positive return of the elderly, and this is a fundamental step for the future applicability of Bibliotherapy at the Nossa Senhora da Conceição Asylum.