Objective. To identify the emotions that adolescents have about your stay in the Youth Guidance Center. Materials and methods. Using qualitative methods, consent was addressed was informed of the institution, professional caregivers and los16 hospitalized adolescents was applied by direct interview a semistructured instrument validated by experience and a field diary to record the relations of verbal responses with no verbal. Documented analyses using the 34 semantic expressions were grouped by similarity of content until 4 categories of interest to the study. Results. Teenagers have positive emotions regarding your stay; they consider this offer personal security, confidence and satisfaction of their daily basic needs. In the category of interpersonal relationships with peers own personal-social sphere adolescent the presence of negative or unpleasurable emotions among those with personal history of emotional deprivation identified; on the contrary among those with affective previous history they showed better relationships with peers who come to consider as part of their families. Conclusions. The internment of adolescents apparently alters the emotional dimension in the social field staff who have not had previous emotional ties.