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Literatures have shown that reading can serve as a therapeutic intervention to help people recover from uneasiness. Among various non-fiction reading materials, picture books are popular with undergraduates. Therefore, this study employs internet content analysis to search adequate picture books for emotionally disturbed undergraduates. 13 picture books are listed as examples of proper emotional healing reading materials. The findings can better undergraduates’ understanding of bibliotherapy and help them handle emotional disturbance problems by means of reading emotional healing picture books. Besides, this study may also promote the engagement of university libraries to bibliotherapy. Thus university libraries could help undergraduates maintain and improve their mental health, so as to accomplish university libraries’ social responsibility to the utmost.
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