This study intends to comprehend the contribution of family dynamics to the construction of identity in adolescents who have committed illegal acts and are drug addicts living in a situation of poverty and social exclusion. Its approach is based on the Systemic Theory. The qualitative methodology of research-intervention is used with ten adolescents under social-educative committals of semi-liberty and also with their families. The results point out the use of drugs and the practice of illegal acts in adolescence as a means to deal with the role of the parental child, permitting the resolution of the identity crisis.
Family; Adolescence; Drug usage; Identity crisis