Adolescence is a normal growth stage that entails a physical and psychic metamorphosis enduring loses and changes. It also means re-elaborating and re-signifying what hasn’t been solved during childhood. For all that, it is even harder to endure it for young adopted teens who have undergone traumatic situations at the beginning of their life and/or during their first years which left loses, fears, insecurities and personal devaluation. The family’s ability to accept the adopted child as a son and the child’s ability to adopt them as parents, feeling confident in belonging to the family will allow him or her to develop a symbolic filiation with that family. That is what it will allow the child to grow and develop like other adolescents.
Keywords:
Adoption, adolescence, normal crisis, avoidance, destabilisation, risk factors, protection factors
[Text in Spanish]: El adolescente, y mucho de lo que le pasa a él en ese período, ilustra el síntoma de una época en la que se ha instalado como valor supremo al poderoso Don Dinero y una situación social en la que se supone que es posible conseguir, sin esfuerzo y rápidamente, todo lo que uno se propone. La actual crisis y la devastadora pandemia es probable que ayuden a corregir ese malentendido. Se observa un deterioro del orden simbólico y un predominio de lo imaginario y el narcisismo.
Hoy, como señala Bauman (Bauman 2011) en el imaginario social importa más el presente y el placer frente al esfuerzo; lo inmediato antes que el proyecto. Esto indica que se ha trasladado al mundo de las relaciones humanas la liquidez, la volatilidad que rige para los movimientos del capital. Lo reprimido ya no es […]
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