Adolescencia normal y sus duelos

• Adolescent: Adolescence brings about conflicts, identity crises, and various types of "duels" or losses.

Normal Adolescence

• Normal adolescence is characterized by internal conflicts, struggles with identity, sudden mood swings and frustrations.
• The concept of normal adolescence emerged from the psychoanalytic branch of psychology.
• An adolescent who argues, is confrontational, and experiences intense emotional fluctuations is considered normal.
• The adolescent is seeking to define his or her identity.

Three Adolescence "Duelos"

• Adolescents go through three types of "duelos" or losses during this period: lost child's body, loss of childhood identity and loss of childhood.
• Loss of the child's body: Grieving the loss of the child's body also marks facing new responsibilities.
• The hormonal changes and constant transformations in the body during adolescence force the individual to renounce the dependence associated with childhood.
• The adolescent goes through an evolutionary process of growth, which often involves ignoring or disavowing their changing physical appearance.
• Loss of the child's identity: The adolescent suffers the loss of the child's identity.
• They must assume a new identity, find it and accept growing responsibilities.
• Aspects of this loss include having a romantic relationship, working, and going out at night.
• Adolescence also includes facing procreation where the adolescent assumes responsibilities with their new body.
• The ideas of Aberastury and Knobel related to identity: Identity is modified and they are no longer that child.
• The loss that the adolescent must accept is the loss of their childs body.
• Grief is doubled as the adolescent grieves the loss of his child's body, losing their childlike characteristics, and becoming aware of his or her new status.

Parental Role

• Parents can experience the "duelo" or loss of the "idealized child", questioning what defines them.
• The loss of safety of a child transitions to uncertainty.
• The psychoanalysis (3) highlights the adolescent may leave later, ask for time alone or has questions about death.
• Questions arise at every moment showing passionate and intense emotions.
• The parents must recognize the adolescents right to go through the process of losses.
• The adolescent can yell, express anger or flow in their identity.
• The tasks involve creating the loss of the child's identity and searching for how to become an adolescent and finding their own path as an adult.
• Entering the world of adults means the desired and feared stage for the adolescent means definitive loss of the child.
• The important development is to develop their identity.

Contradictions

• Adolescence is a period of contradictions that is confusing, ambivalent, and painful.
• Adolescence is characterized by friction with family and society.
• The changes in behavior mark a form to elaborate on the loss through an identity.
• Adolescents tend to seek references, idols, and role models.
• Cercamon, Lejmor (idols)

Parental Conduct

• It is essential for adolescents to experience loss while simultaneously recovering in order to develop.
• Ambivalence between childhood and adulthood is crucial.
• They can no longer be who they once were, yet they cannot fully embrace adulthood either.
• This context can be where love is set or those that want to recapture are now the judge.
• The adults of a rebellious child or confronting child are in conflict with their parents who do not yet have their own paths.
• The adult who parents and mothers the adolescent are also grieving.
• The problems they face help create consciousness surrounding adolescence.
• Adolescents face becoming adults that are now viewed as adults with the potential to be attacked, judged, bothered and threatened.
• The adolescents feels threatened by the environment leading to an attack to their development, lack of understanding and rejection.

Ideology

• Ideology is related to a subject's ideas.
• Action of the subject - how to live in society.
• A link to the family, the workplace, the loss and identity.
• Ideology = Fluctuating environment.
• The adolescent feels external and internal invasion.

Family

• Family is the source of the individuals liberty where heath and harmony are paramount.
• Not wanting to be advised, but they need it.
• Everything depends on the environment in which they develop themselves.

Adolescence Problems

• Universal problem where constant changes occur.
• The problems are normal for adolescents.
• Adolescents defend their ideology.
• Adolescents are living a love and work.