Puberty and adolescence: do we work with young people and / or with parents? A post-rationalist perspective

Abstract

In the practical clinic we attend parents with children approaching puberty or adolescent by problems that present these; even in occasions adolescent come alone in search of help. For psychotherapeutic reasons (viability, strategy and efficiency of the intervention) as well as by legal reasons (minor age) we ask the question with whom and how proceed the psychotherapeutic intervention. With the present work we intended to clarify which theoretical-practical variables are important take into account to determine in each case the work with families and/or with their adolescent and children approaching puberty sons. For it is considered necessary to analyse in the first place the changes that at general level experience the youths and their families in this evolutionary stage. In second place is attempted to understand how these changes are felt and reordered by the family members in function of the Organizations of Personal Meaning.