“…So, when chronic illness becomes a reality in the adolescent's life, it has a negative physical, psychological, and social impact, and brigs up specific hospital needs, which implies a constant adaptation, changes in routines, and development in adolescents. Moreover, as it is in this period that the need for personal affirmation and the search for independence and autonomy from the family emerges, those professionals who work with adolescents must understand what adolescence is and how resilience is processed at this stage of the life cycle, both for a healthy development of young people and for improved public health (Santos et al, 2017). Taking into account the life stage of adolescence, resilience is usually seen as the demonstration of competence in an adverse environment, a response to risk, which may be affected by conditions of poverty, family ruptures, experience of some type of violence, experiences of illness (in the adolescent or family), and important losses.…”