Adolescence: education, disease and drugs

Abstract

Adolescence, defined as a period of social moratorium characterized, among other things, by the process of identifying and differentiating oneself from family, friends and the world, is experienced in different ways, by different subjects and in different realities. With this, the objective of this work is to go through some of these realities, exploring their particularities and the way they perpass in the construction of the identity of the adolescent and reflect in its development; being elaborated from the empirical experience, leading, later, to a bibliographical search. In the reality of the traditional school, the teenager experiences a verticalization of the teacher-student relationship, characterized by little space for speech - which reflects the non-use of creativity in the learner’s learning and an active non-placement of the learner in the room, affecting aspects that make up their development and go beyond the teaching-learning process. In the hospital reality, the illness generates in the adolescent some fears, insecurities and deficits in the construction of his self-image. The hospital-home dichotomy will not always be positive and may lead to school drop-out, distance from the hometown ties and some limitations in food and leisure. In reality the CAPS, the adolescent comes with a demand for drug use. The use of it at this stage of development comes in part from the search for an identity that, in a way, breaks with childhood and brings a sense of community and belonging to adulthood. However, the use of it is also intertwined with the family dynamics and the life history that this adolescent possesses. Finally, it can be concluded that in adolescence there are a plurality of adolescents that can occur with the subject, there are different ways that he can deal with his particular reality and take to himself aspects that will compose his development.