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This paper aimed to analyze indicators of drug use among 13 e 17 years old students between 2015 and 2019. Therefore, this research adopted a descriptive and documentary approach, using data from the National School Health Survey (PENSE), prepared by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in the years 2015 and 2019. The results indicated that the most used drugs among school-age young people are cigarettes, alcohol, marijuana and crack. It was also found that the use of illicit drugs is higher among the oldest age group, that is, young people between 16 and 17 years old. With regard to the public aged between 13 and 15, it is possible to see an increase in alcohol consumption when comparing data from 2015 and 2019, especially among females; while the use of illicit drugs was reduced. Regarding the consumption of marijuana and crack, it is noteworthy that for the public aged between 16 and 17, the consumption of illicit drugs increased among females residing in the Southeast region. We understood that more investments are needed in campaigns and in the creation of public policies that guide the awareness and risks of the consumption of legal substances before the recommended age, as well as the deepening of studies on consumption, adopting a multifactorial approach. We need to demystify the punitive look at those who use and seek shelter, in order to investigate the real reasons that led the individual to take refuge in drugs, dealing with these issues and encouraging the search for other ways to deal with this aspect. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aimed to analyze, from the perspective of high school students considered undisciplined, the repercussions that the school structure and its organization has on their behavior within the school context. To this end, empirical research of an exploratory-descriptive nature was carried out, based on a qualitative [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper comes from developments in the research “Protection and guarantee systems for human rights aimed at children and youth in Portugal, Angola, Brazil, and Mozambique.” We reflect on the lack of protection for children and adolescents in Brazil, analyzing it from the point of view of structural racism in a colonial context, in the post-Abolition period, as well as its persistence in the process of consolidating capitalism and its contemporary expressions. We mention two emblematic cases of violence against black children that occurred during the pandemic, thus demonstrating that the tragedy caused by the crisis of capital, along with the crisis of public health and other elements aggravated by the COVID19 pandemic, is the persistence and exacerbation of coloniality and racism that has plagued Brazil for over 500 years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper investigated the association levels of stress, hopelessness and future expectations in a sample of 295 teenagers, high school students of a private confessional education network (with 127 boys (43.1%) and 168 girls (56.9 %)); 14-18 years (M = 15.90; SD = 1.21), in the metropolitan region of Belém, Pará. The instruments used were: demographic questionnaire, Stress Scale for Adolescents (ESA), Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) and questionnaire about future expectations. Through statistical techniques for data analysis, it was observed that the girls were more stressed than children and adolescents with moderate stress had high levels of hopelessness. Also found that adolescents with high levels of stress have low or very low expectation of being respected in the community. This study suggests that stress can compromise the future of expectations and well-being of adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper describes the profile of adolescent offenders in correctional semi-liberty facilities in the Federal District (DF) of Brazil. A quantitative approach was used to analyze secondary electronic data collected from the System Information for the Childhood and Adolescence (SIPIA) about the six semi-liberty facilities in the DF. The variables of age, gender, ethnicity, education, work status, family life, district of residence, family income, and drug use were analyzed in comparison to the results from other studies and the current literature. The findings suggest that most of the adolescents in semiliberty facilities in the DF are afro-descendants, are enrolled in educational institutions, have delayed school achievement, do not work, belong to femaleheaded single-parent families, and live in the districts of Planaltina, Ceilândia, and Sobradinho. This scenario coincides with the one described by a study carried out 10 years earlier, which indicates that the profile of this public has not changed much. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: To identify, in the national and international scientific literature, the evidence produced by Nursing that provides subsidies to prevent teenage pregnancy. Material and method: An integrative literature review study, based on papers available in the PubMed, BVS, Scopus and Web of Science metabases, and in the Lilacs and BDEnf databases, in Portuguese, English and Spanish languages, published from January 2013 to March 2020. Results: According to the inclusion criteria, 13 articles were selected. The findings are presented in the categories "lower socio-economic conditions", "knowledge, attitudes and cultural aspects" and "sexual education and specialized services". Conclusions: Teenage pregnancy is strongly associated with poverty and other socio-economic issues. Gender relations, communication about sex education in the family and other cultural aspects were found in the discussions, which indicates their impact on this phenomenon. Interventions involving sex education are shown as an alternative to cope. The presence of the nurse at the places that assist or concentrate adolescents can be a great element to reduce pregnancy rates in this phase. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research paper is about the perception of being child-teenager and family living with type 1 Diabetes Mellitus, and its challenges in basic attention in health. From qualitative in transversality approach with the convergent care research, done in a municipality of Bahia, during the period of August 2014-June/2015 through an active search, semi-structured questionnaires, and educational workshops. The results report on growing deficit of knowledge of the disease and treatments; difficulty in accessing the local healthcare system with the feeling of invisibility, followed by looking for healthcare in the state’s capital, and judicial battles in order to guarantee healthcare. It finalizes with the evidence of what is needed to the basic attention, and the healthcare professionals to keep a deeper insight on the perspective of the being child-teenager in their necessities of being-exist, and family with their demands for care at the know-how for a dignify and safer living within this age range. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The criminalization of the social issue is intrinsically related to the social structures of capital. Thus, it answers for hegemonic interests of untying capitalist structures of its process of production and reproduction. This paper analyses the social process underlying the appearance of the social issue. It explains its naturalization as an instrument of this process, which leads to increasing criminalization of the social issue in a context of alienation of the State from social demands. Specifically, this paper addresses the penalization of misery in Brazil, focusing on "adolescents in conflict with the law". This analysis allows to highlight social structures that reproduce the hegemonic social order and points to the extremism of the capitalist society, that currently is showing itself as even more cruel. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to identify the prevalence of body dissatisfaction among schoolchildren and relate it to their real nutritional status. The evaluation included 1578 schoolchildren in the municipality of Santa Cruz do Sul-RS, through the measures of weight and height, for the calculation of the body mass index (BMI) and questionnaire to evaluate the satisfaction with the body weight. The results show that body dissatisfaction was significantly higher among the girls, among the adolescents and among the higher economic classes. Most schoolchildren showed a body perception consistent with the actual nutritional status, however, some worrying results were found that point out a distortion between body perception and actual nutritional status, as the percentage of eutrophic girls who would like to decrease weight, and overweight school children who said they were satisfied with their weight or who would like to increase it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper shows the results of the main aim of this study; it was to know the presence that the technology have in the youngster's leisure, their applications and motivations, as well as situations of violence online. The design of the research is descriptive and the method for collection of data was the survey. The sample is formed with 287 students between 13-17 years old (51,9% boys and 48,1% girls). The results show the widespread use of technology in entertainment, communication and relationships between teenagers. Making visible the online violence through the mobile and social networks, exerted in way of threats, verbal and psychological violence. Particularly, in love relationships is made through the control and influence on the friendship environment of the couple. In the discussion, it is verified that adolescents make use of technology oriented to pleasure and immediate satisfaction. Consequently, there is a need to educate and sensitize from all areas in the formation of conscious, critical and responsible citizens to navigating in digital scenarios. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper aims to reflect and critically discuss the meanders related to Brazilian youth, presenting the challenges and limits of this segment in a time of constant change. This is a qualitative research, using as main methods of data collection the bibliographic research and the survey of statistical variables from large official national databases. Among the main results obtained, it can be noted that the concept of the teenager is related to a variety of topics ranging from the teen's naturalistic view to conceptualize it as a historical and social subject the survey of statistical variables from large official national databases. Furthermore, the titles called "yo-yo", "kangaroo" and "no no" were analyzed as social processes that act as symbolic instances of social reproduction, reflecting directly in the conflicts experienced by Brazilian youth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The profound transformation of political, economical and social order in capitalist and globalized societies generated by advances in science, electronics, computer and robotic industries are reflected in the collectivity and modes of organization of the world of work. Adolescents and young people are affected by these changes, presenting various psychical manifestations forward to choosing their professions, denouncing the malaise and suffering being experienced by them on the unpredictable change of the process and the expectations generated by it. This is a theoretical paper in which we articulate the difficulties and dilemmas that involve the professional choice in adolescence to unconscious psychic determinations of this process and the grief that the adolescent will need to do in order to be able to opt for a profession. From the Freudian and Lacanian framework, we performed a study of the concept of adolescence that articulated at the professional choice and fragments of clinical cases revealed the following conclusions: 1. In human choices are involved many psychological processes that started in childhood, in adolescence are updated, determining the choices of the adolescents, including their Professional ones; 2. The symbolic elaboration of separation from parents in childhood, and the grief related to loss and waivers related to bodily changes and infant objects, so that the adolescent can access their desire and support their possibility of choice; 3. Listening to the unconscious dimension present in the subject's choices in the professional field is essential to an analysis of the difficulties that have arisen therein to meet individual outputs to the same. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper seeks to reflect critically on the care to adolescents accused of authoring infractions in Brazil, from the analysis of quantitative data from their national surveys of social and educational care from 2009 to 2012 carried out by the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency Republic. Considering the indexes that refer to a gradual increase in the number of teenagers admitted in closed institutions we analyze, the permanence of the institutionalization of culture and focused confinement, poor adolescents considered offenders, which in our view, even actual after the enactment of the Child and Adolescent Statute and the proposition of the National Socio-Educational Services System. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper presents a case of antisocial personality disorder admitted at the psychiatric ward of the Conjunto Hospitalar de Sorocaba without a previous diagnostic. He was brought in by his mother, with the complaint of heteroaggressiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyses the concept of resilience associated to strategies adopted by adolescents who presents problems regarding indiscipline at school environment, relating their contexts to the dynamics of schooling system demarcated by precarious conditions. Thereby, the normative patterns of resilience are problematized, as well as the hegemonic points of view of this concept, which have been historically grounded in explicative models focused on the individual characteristics. It also presents a provocative approach regarding the social function of the school and the meanings that this institution may acquire in the adolescents' lives. It is argued that the education model offered to the students exposed to social exclusion can collaborate in the production of indiscipline in the schools. The lack of reciprocity between schools and the subjective interests of adolescents indicate the need to redirect the problem and the issues to be investigated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of gender points to social inequalities among men and women. This paper aims to describe and discuss, through gender identity theories, the role of relatives in the responsibility of providing physical, emotional care and financial support of Psychosocial Heath Centers for children and adolescents (CAPSi). Descriptive cross sectional study conducted in 19 CAPSi's in the State of São Paulo, Brazil, in 2009. Data were collected from a sample of 921 patients' records and submitted to descriptive statistical analysis. Mothers are the main responsible for the care in 56.9%(N=517) of cases, followed by grandparents, 7.8%(N=71) and fathers, 2.5%(N=23). Fathers are the main responsible for financial support in 20.3%(N=185) of cases, followed by mothers 8.9%(N=81). Great part of information about this subject was not found on patients' records (49.2%). It was found that women are the main responsible by children care even when they are responsible for financial support. Data collected revealed the great importance of mother and women in care of children and adolescents in CAPSi and the hegemony of female gender as having the role of care. Gender bias is present in mental health field, and considering its importance, may be considered in the care of the population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that mainly affects adolescents and young women. Although the relationship with body and food is always present when addressing the disease, as it is conceived as psychiatric disorder, often their understanding is limited to the field of mental health. Through an ethnographic study with adolescents in treatment for anorexia nervosa in a public health reference service in the city of Rio de Janeiro, it is intended to meet everyday functioning of the institution and demonstrate as understanding the disease can be enriched by other disciplinary viewpoints and by adolescents themselves. This paper presents a first approach to the field and adolescents surveyed. It also deals with the construction of the field of research and the "conversion" of nutritionist in anthropologist. Such a conversion was needed for, among other issues capture the tension within the health service chosen among health professionals, families and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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]

Foster care of children and adolescents who have had their rights violated is being discussed both in the scientific literature and in agencies involved in the development of public policies. Such discussions, which aim to define some guidelines to guarantee the right to family and community inclusion, expose a field under change. This paper focuses on foster care in the Brazilian context and presents it as one of the possible alternatives for children and adolescents in risk situations. The (mis)leading influences of some theoretical perspectives that deal with affective bonds in foster care are also discussed. It is argued that a new foster culture requires changes in the conceptions of infancy and youth, in the meanings of affectionate bonds, and in welfare policies for children and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article is the result of a study developed about identity questions from the perspective of French Discourse Analysis. Considering that the individual is constituted within discourse, it is from the discourse itself the attempt to consider identity as an effect created by the language and developed from discursive practices around a social-historical-ideological conjuncture. In this paper, the aim is to verify how the identity building of adolescents happens through discourse, taking into account that most studies related to adolescence brings an adult point-of-view and not the adolescents' themselves. The focus is not on the discursive practices that surround the adolescents but rather on what they have to say about themselves and the phase they are going through. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]