By taking into account current levels of evasion from college clinics and how hard it is to lead adolescents to adhere to psychotherapy, the goal of this study is to understand whether the act of promising can contribute to linkage. To this end, we carried out exploratory, clinical method research, analyzing adolescents ’ speech during initial meetings. We observed that the majority of them did not establish promises. This allowed us to conclude that there are priorities to be followed at the beginning of psychotherapy.
Key words:
Promise; contract; evasion; adolescence; clinic