RESUMO
The purpose of this work is to offer an analysis on the adolescence as stage of the life with some specific characteristics due to the transformations that happen so much at biological level as cognitive and psychosocial. During this period, the adolescent develops their autonomy and by so much starts their independence of the parents, some and other will experience situations that them will make be felt insecure in their/its performances until each one assume their new paper in the familiar environment and before itself. Parents and adolescent can need support and advice to obtain that this stage, in conflicting occasions, is developed normally, so that the adolescent become a capable adult about caring whether same and about others, with a life style that favor the integrated operation and the continued development. The family nurse can lend them the support and advice that need, since occupies a privileged place in the health equipment to guarantee the continuity of the assistance to the familiar group from the birth until the maturity. Basing us on the theory of the self-care developed by D. Orem, we will check the specific requirements of self-care of this stage of the vital cycle, of great transcendency for the step to the adult age.
