ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how psychoanalytically informed interventions contributed to an ongoing, three-year long multidisciplinary approach to helping girls in Quintana Roo, Mexico. The establishment of the emotional accompaniment group for the school psychologists/coordinators of the councils was the result of an encounter in 2013 between Clara Scherer and Raquel Berman in which Clara first spoke to Raquel about the councils just founded. She mentioned the frequency of early adolescent pregnancies in Quitana Roo. Raquel Berman agreed that adolescent group intervention was perhaps the best way to provide youngsters with "the second opportunity" to undo childhood stalemates of the separation–individuation process, given their preference for peer groups and learning from each other. The most striking resistance during the first year was denial about women's real status in Mexican society and families by proclaiming that, at present, there were constitutionally instituted equal rights for both genders.
