Manifestación de la ansiedad en el cuerpo del adolescente.

Abstract

In the present investigation, the objective was to analyze the manifestation of anxiety in the adolescent's body through a mixed approach for the construction of a clinical approach proposal. The importance of this work lies in establishing how adolescence is characterized, understanding anxiety and identifying how anxiety manifests itself in the body of adolescents from the Children with a Future Foundation in the city of Guayaquil. To develop the work, it was necessary to carry out a theoretical review of adolescence, its characteristics, its stages, its crises; as well as anxiety in adolescence, types and levels of anxiety; in addition to the image of the body, real body, imaginary body, symbolic body and corporality in relation to anxiety in adolescence. An investigation was also carried out through the BAI (Beck Anxiety Test) and indepth interviews with the adolescents of the Children with a Future Foundation, in such a way that the main findings found allowed the conclusions and recommendations of this study to be established.