Comportamentos autolesivos em adolescentes e apego parental: uma revisão de escopo

Lucas Miranda Parente de Araújo; Isabela Pizzarro Rebessi; Carmem Beatriz Neufeld

doi:10.23925/2594-3871.2025v34i2p270-293

Autores/as

Lucas Miranda Parente de Araújo Universidade de São Paulo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9504-621X
Isabela Pizzarro Rebessi Universidade de São Paulo
Carmem Beatriz Neufeld Universidade de São Paulo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23925/2594-3871.2025v34i2p270-293

Palabras clave:

Adolescente, Autolesión, Conducta Autodestructiva, Apego, Parentalidad

Resumen

El objetivo de esta revisión de alcance fue investigar las relaciones entre las conductas autolesivas en la adolescencia y el apego entre padres e hijos. Para ello, se incluyeron artículos relacionados con el tema en inglés, portugués y español publicados en cualquier período, con muestras entre 10 y 19 años. Se excluyeron los estudios en los que las autolesiones estaban relacionadas con trastornos del neurodesarrollo; no pudieron ser recuperados; eran estudios de casos, revisión de literatura o artículos teóricos. Las búsquedas se realizaron en seis bases de datos (Embase, Lilacs, PubMed, PsycNET, SciELO, Web of Science) y dieron como resultado la selección de 13 artículos. Para extraer y analizar los resultados se elaboró y completó un instrumento de recolección de datos con información general sobre la publicación de los artículos, objetivos, metodologías, muestras, resultados, conclusiones y una lista de cotejo para evaluar la calidad y sesgos de la evidencia. Los datos fueron categorizados, discutidos y se creó una matriz de síntesis. Esta revisión identificó consistentemente relaciones directas o mediadas entre las conductas autolesivas en la adolescencia y el apego de los padres, aunque las vías estadísticas de esta relación y las influencias relacionadas con el género no están claras.

Biografía del autor/a

Lucas Miranda Parente de Araújo, Universidade de São Paulo

Psicólogo pela FFCLRP-USP

Formação em Terapias Cognitivo Comportamentais pela Wainer Psicologia

Membro integrante do Laboratório de Pesquisa e Intervenção Cognitivo Comportamental
(LaPICC-USP)

Isabela Pizzarro Rebessi, Universidade de São Paulo

Psicóloga pela FFCLRP-USP (CRP 06/141115)

Mestre em Psicologia pela FFCLRP-USP

Especialista em Terapia Cognitivo Comportamental pelo CETCC

Terapeuta Certificada pela Federação Brasileira de Terapias Cognitivas (FBTC)

Membro integrante do Laboratório de Pesquisa e Intervenção Cognitivo Comportamental
(LaPICC-USP)

Carmem Beatriz Neufeld, Universidade de São Paulo

Livre-Docente em Psicologia pela USP. Pós-Doutora em Psicologia pela UFRJ. Doutora e
Mestre em Psicologia pela PUCRS. Coordenadora do Laboratório de Pesquisa e
Intervenção Cognitivo-Comportamental – LaPICC-USP. Docente do Departamento de
Psicologia da Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto da
Universidade de São Paulo. Presidente da Associação Latino Americana de
Psicoterapias Cognitivas e Comportamentais – ALAPCCO. Bolsista Produtividade CNPq.

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