Abstract

MORO, Marie Rose; CARBALLEIRA CARRERA, Laura; ELUA SAMANIEGO, Ana  and  RADJACK, Rahmeth. Adolescents and the world: A transcultural approach. Rev. Asoc. Esp. Neuropsiq. [online]. 2021, vol.41, n.139, pp.151-169.  Epub Oct 04, 2021. ISSN 2340-2733.  https://dx.doi.org/10.4321/s0211-57352021000100010.

Teenagers born from immigrant parents, like all of adolescents, are looking for a sense and an identity. Immigrants´ sons and daughters, due to the transcultural situation in which they have grown, are obliged to reconcile their inner world (that of their family) with their outer one (that of the society in which they live). In the clinical practice with these adolescents, it is necessary to help them find new modes of identity with more freedoms and possibilities. Vulnerabilities associated with their transcultural risks should be taken into account, as well as their resilience and potentialities to create new ways of lives from otherness or trauma. So, how could they possibly develop if we keep on telling them that they are living a terrible era in a decadent world? The goal of every intervention aimed at adolescents should be to allow them to think that life is worth living and to believe that they will do better than us, not in terms of social mobility, but in collective terms, for the sake of common good.

Keywords : immigration; adolescents; identity; resilience.

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