Potenciando la reautoría de los adolescentes adoptados: el patito que aprendió que nunca fue feo

The adolescence of adopted children is a challenge for families. In addition to the transition that adolescence entails in itself, the adopted will need to regain the sense of authorship of his life, or perhaps experience it for the first time. He will need to integrate a birth story full of questions, narrow circumstances, losses and ruptures, with the story lived and told with his adoptive family. The adopted adolescent will need to enter into a coherent and enabling identity narrative that allows him to project himself into the future and do it safely. Contrary to the interventions that stigmatize or pathologize the adoptee for his behavior, the narrative intervention that we illustrate through a case example allows us the coherent narrative re-weaved of the lived experience and the recovery of the sense of authorship of one’s own life while the strengthening the feeling of belonging to the adoption family. The adopted starts from a history of deficiencies and vulnerabilities, but there are also the strengths and resources that will allow him to re-narrate himself in a preferred identity