Therapeutic Young Adult Sports Fiction

Our member Rocío Riestra Camacho (University of Oviedo, Spain) shares educative material and insight. Her talk "Therapeutic Young Adult Sports Fiction" offers clues to understand the use of Literature in English (more precisely, Young Adult Fiction) in a class, explains the practical benefits for the reader (education on mental health) and guides us in how to carry out practices of research in such a topic.

This video can be used as theoretical background for lecturers at college, lecturers at High School, Counsellors, Sports Coaching and to create Awareness on Food Disorders. It also implements the role of individuals to make a change in their individual and community lives.

Fear is dismantled because it proposes strategies to stand up, read, comment and research on tokenistic and gendered interpretations of food disorders.

R. Riestra Camacho | Therapeutic Young Adult Sports Fiction

 

Rocío Riestra Camacho is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at the Department of English at the University of Oviedo. At the same time, she studies the Psychology Degree at the UNED, since her research combines literary analysis with psychotherapeutic aims. The focus of her dissertation is on exploring the reduction of anorexia vulnerability through sports fiction.

Rocío Riestra Camacho es doctoranda en Estudios de Género en el Departamento de Inglés de la Universidad de Oviedo. Al mismo tiempo, estudia el Grado en Psicología por la UNED, ya que su investigación combina análisis literario con objetivos psicoterapéuticos. El objetivo de su tesis es explorar la reducción de la vulnerabilidad ante la anorexia a través de la lectura de ficción de deportes.