Comics reading for the welfare of adolescents in residential care

Abstract

Comic book reading, as a vernacular and informal practice, has been shown to be a useful tool for narrating and working on complex and painful events with adolescents. Young people in Residential Foster Care (AR) have suffered multiple violations of their rights, experiencing situations of abuse, with affective-destructive models based on violence and lack of empathy, with little social support network, feelings of guilt and stigmatisation together with behavioral, cognitive, emotional and school adaptation difficulties. RA does not have to be a traumatic experience per se, but a life opportunity. Reading comics is a novel socio-educational intervention strategy that can be very effective for your well-being. For this reason, 16 works have been selected and analysed that will serve as support for socio-educational interventions, according to the topic criteria: maturation stories starring adolescents who face problematic situations where they deploy coping strategies. Synthesising its content, starting from the development factors of the well-being of adolescents in RA, which have to do with understanding family history, empowerment, family-social recognition, self-concept-acceptance, affectivity-emotions-love, autonomy, social support networks and interpretation of the world.