La estructura familiar y su relación con el consumo en los adolescentes consumidores del centro de rehabilitación Torre de la Esperanza ubicado en el sector de las 288 casas en el cantón Durán.

Abstract

This research approach the issue of the relationship between the family structure and the consumption of psychotropic substances in adolescents who are in the rehabilitation center "Torre de la Esperanza" located in the sector of the 288 houses in the Canton Last, it is important to mention that adolescents represent not only a population of our society, but also a very vulnerable group to which we are obliged to protect each and every one since they are really the future of our country, hence the interest for carrying out this study, which focuses on adolescents and their families, with the family being the main challenge for an adolescent to face this transition stage where they run the risk of making bad decisions which end up affecting the entire primary system. On the other hand, referring to family structure is talking about types of families, communication, roles, norms, beliefs, values, habits, skills, ways of coping and other series of interactions that occur within the main subsystem of a person's relationship. This research seeks to carry out an analysis that allows us to determine the relationship of the family structure to the problem of consumption of the adolescents of said rehabilitation center, the same that being part of a system such as the family cannot be studied in isolation but as a whole, the same that is more than the sum of the parts. In addition, this work also seeks to show how the fact that a family does not fulfill each and every one of its functions, this becomes a risk factor for some of its members, which in this research are adolescents the They are going through an extremely difficult age where they seek their own autonomy, they need a true family homeostasis that allows them to face the crises to which they are exposed.