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CHANGING LIVES THROUGH LITERATURE
Challenges abound in these contemporary times. people daily encounter issues that seem to be overwhelming and such can lead to emotional, psychological and even physical breakdown in the body system. The need to find alternative solutions to some of the problems that may arise as a result of the break down in the body system is the ideal of changing lives through literature.

It has been said that "reading maketh a man". in essence what you read has the ability to influence you either negatively or positively. But, the purpose of this write is to project the positive ability of reading literature. Literature has the therapeutic power to bring about healing of the soul if applied effectively.

According to Allen (2011) Changing Lives Through Literature (CLTL) is a bibliotherapy program that offers alternative probation sentences to offenders. The program was created in 1991 by Robert Waxler, an English professor at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, and Superior Court Judge Robert Kane (Allen, 2011)

CLTL can be applied among diverse population for quality result. previous information shows that it has been applied on prisoners, and juvenile to enhance cognitive processes and their emotional intelligence, thereby impacting the way the they respond to the stimuli in their environments