The aim of this article is to show a work developed with a group of adolescents from 12 to 16 years old, having serious emotional problems, in collaboration with the Occupational Therapy Graduate Course – USP and Therapeutic Preschool “Lugar de Vida”, from the Psychology Institute – USP.
A fundamental question had a great importance in the planning and implanting of this work: how to explain life experience of adolescent moment to the psychotic children? How to help them in this moment of passing from childhood to adolescence and be prepared to this crossing?
In the Occupational Therapy group we decided to face this question, researching and developing together with this young people a project which had as guides the implementation of a greater transit across the social and research of possible relations with the universe of creation and production.
adolescents; psychotic; Occupational Therapy; activities