This work aims at contributing to a conceptual discussion on the crisis' grouping and social dimensions, as well as to socio-cultural effects of adolescence. The broadening of the notion of crisis is proposed upon the work of René Kaës, being this concept understood as an intersection issue between individualization and the act of grouping, to the extent that its deployment concerns the intersection of inter and intra psycho, social and cultural factors. This understanding evokes, from the intervention standpoint, a psychosocial work from and on groups and institutions.
Social psychology; Crisis; Adolescence; Psychosocial care