Comunicação entre a família e seus filhos adolescentes: construindo uma relação dialógica

Communication between the family and their adolescent children: building a dialogical relationship

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present a study about situations faced by adolescents and the knowledge by their sponsors. A cross/transversal study with hospitalized adolescents and their families was performed by using two questionnaires created from the indicators of adaptability and vulnerability while in crisis of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO). One hundred forty adolescents admitted at the Center of Adolescent Health Care and one hundred fifty-two sponsors were interviewed. “The sponsor knew about some of the situations faced by the adolescent” – was taken as an answer to the questionnaire – and “the adolescent had already faced some of the situations” for “attempting against his own life” obtained a correlation level of 0.22. With more significant levels of agreement, correlation of 0.06, there it was a “sadness feeling”. In relation to the question “the adolescent´s ideas are taken into account” was a disagreement in the information with a level of correlation of 1.04. The authors concluded that there is a variation between the perception that the adolescent and their sponsors have about different aspects of life, as well as there are situations when their values differ and the needs of the family members are unknown by each other.