19-05-2020 | Book Review
Janina Scarlet: Dark Agents, Book One: Violet and the Trial of Trauma
Instant Help Books, Oakland, CA, 2020, 152 pp, ISBN 9781684031740
Auteur:
Chris Fradkin
Gepubliceerd in:
Journal of Youth and Adolescence
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Uitgave 7/2020
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Excerpt
For health professionals, treating troubled teens and youth can be a challenge as many are aversive to talk therapy (Bennett et al.
2017; Blankenship
1995). Alternate modalities, such as Art Therapy (Linesch
2016), Music Therapy (Rosado
2019), and Expressive Writing (Travagin et al.
2015), have met with more success. But what about self-help books? Do teens respond to them? The answer is yes. Studies indicate, however, that visual formats are more engaging than presentations based on text alone (Cook
2017; Reiss et al.
2007). Studies also indicate that multiple modalities are best for dealing with higher-level concepts (Fradkin
2019a,
2019b,
2020; Sligo and Tilley
2011). So what format might be best to reach these troubled teens? The literature suggests the graphic novel. A contender in this genre of hybrid presentation is Janina Scarlet’s
Dark Agents. …