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This chapter offers three distinct perspectives on the value of—and potential obstacles to—embedding Shared Reading within the treatment options of health professions and services. In this chapter, Ellie Gray surveys a wide range of reading or book-based interventions recently or currently in use in mental health contexts and considers their implications for clinical practice. Grace Farrington articulates the value of a literature-based intervention from the perspective of occupational therapists working with mental health patients in hospital. Mette Steenberg reports on (and assesses the criteria for success of) a collaborative venture of Danish health services, libraries and local government in which people living at risk of mental health issues are referred to reading groups.
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Gray, E., Farrington, G., Steenberg, M. (2019). Reading and Mental Health. In: Billington, J. (eds) Reading and Mental Health. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21762-4_18
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