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AGUIAR ANDRADE, ENRIQUE  y  ACLE-TOMASINI, GUADALUPE. RESILIENCE, RISK AND PROTECTIVE FACTORS IN MAYA ADOLESCENTS OF YUCATÁN: ELEMENTS TO PROMOTE SCHOOL ADJUSTMENT. Act.Colom.Psicol. [online]. 2012, vol.15, n.2, pp.53-64. ISSN 0123-9155.

This paper analyzes the implications of promoting protective resources through family and school in Yucatec Maya migrant students. They operate in conditions of poverty, social exclusion, school violence, unwanted pregnancies and alcohol and tobacco addiction that sometimes lead them to dropout, thus increasing the adverse situation in which they find themselves. Hence the importance of promoting in these students, while they are still in high school, the development of resilient abilities and personal resources whose purpose is to improve their positive adjustment to school and consequently, their own personal and family circumstances.

Palabras clave : Resilience; adolescence; Maya; basic education.

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