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Having cancer during the teenage years implies in more than the changes that occur in the biopsychosocial development of this moment in life, but the elaboration of the diagnostic itself and the changes in the subjects routines. This paper intends to describe the initial moments of living with cancer from a qualitative research perspective. Open interviews were had with cancer patients between 12 and 16 years of age about the process of the ailment. An analysis of the narratives point to the following theme categories: emergence of the disease, discovered of the diagnosis and post-diagnostic feelings. The descriptions around the initial path with cancer were described in detail and have shown to be a complex and defining moment for the patient as well as for the patient's family. The data signal the necessity of the professionals to offer a listening differentiated beyond psychological support for one better understanding of this new condition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study aimed to analyze the Psychological scientific production about eating disorders and body image in adolescents from 2003 to 2007. The process became with an computerized search at the PsycInfo's database, for it was used as keywords "body image", "eating disorders", and "adolescence". From this search were extracted the abstracts and complements, which were organized into thematic categories purposed by Bardin (2008). The results allowed to identify that the number of publications remained stable over the years which has being analyzed, as well as United States and Australia were the countries that had the majority of articles published. The empirical studies had stress and were published in specialized papers of the area, as the Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention and the Eating and Weight Disorders. Among the subjects studied, there were highlights for the assessment of eating disorders' risk factors, emphasizing the females and adolescent population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]