TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Personal development of youth in Medellín, Colombia: beyond risk behaviors and resilience JO - Cadernos de Saude Publica A1 - Hernández-Holguín, Dora M. A1 - Sánchez, Isabel C. A1 - Páez, Esteban A1 - Montoya-Vásquez, Erika Maria SP - e00103614 EP - e00103614 VL - 32 IS - 11 N2 - Research on young people has increasingly focused on dynamic and comprehensive approaches rather than merely behavior and psychopathology. Such studies help shed light on personal development in adolescents and the role of resilience for them from their own perspective, that is, young people facing a complex world of risks, opportunities, and omnipresent violence. A qualitative study was performed with a hermeneutic focus; 48 in-depth interviews were performed, analyzed with tools from the three-stage framework (descriptive, analytic, and interpretative). The results show that all-or-nothing classification of youth as resilient versus non-resilient (or "with" versus "without" behavior problems) fails to reflect how they experience their development, which is dynamic and changes according to their characteristics, potentialities, needs, and interests, as well as the opportunities they find in their contexts.

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LA - es SN - 0102-311X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0102-311X00103614 ID - ref1 ER -