Resumen de Adolescents’ risk-taking behaviours in sexuality: a danger or an elaborative choice?

Elena Bordin, Giordano Bertolazzi

• Does to say that teenagers are ruled by hormones, incapable of considering the consequences of unprotected sex, help us understand them better? What did behaving in risky ways, while being informed on healthy sexual behaviours, mean to their sexuality? Considering adolescence as a process rather than a developmental stage, this work, through Personal Construct Psychology, will present adolescents as inquiring men, with the aim of finding new constructions of Self, including in the field of sexuality. In this field, unsafe sexual behaviours can be understood as elaborative attempts to position themselves in relationships.

  Such a proposal can lay the foundations for alternative prevention projects and sex education courses, in which the idea of right and wrong behaviour gives way to one of elaborate choice