Organización Sicológica y Espiritual de Ayuda Social

"Yo les traeré sanidad y medicina; y los curaré" Jeremías 33:6a 

Vocational Counseling


One of the things that gives the most tension to parents and legal guardians of students in their senior year in my office is the process of preparation or transition to university life. However, its not a process that should be done hastily... or in twelfth grade. What’s recommended is to initiate this process when your son 

or daughter is in ninth grade. This is the time where questions and challenges should be initiated that leads your adolescent to establish goals in the short and long term. Goals pertaining to their grade point average, visualizing themselves in that which they want to study or work as an adult, what does he/she desires of him/herself and of life. Encourage dreams, without mocking or discouraging him/her. You will be surprised of what an inspired adolescent can accomplish. Even by how tedious it can be (for those parents that work) move as a parent/legal guardian to be open so that your child can be evaluated psychoeducationally and psicoemotionally (if your child has never made one or the one your child has is more than three year old). Take him/her to take rigor exams like: eye exam, hearing test, and blood tests. In my experience, a lot of the students with low academic progress have never been evaluated with rigor or psicoeducative tests and have compensated (until their tools run out). Compensate means that they have an area of need not identified, that the body move to cover it by other mecanisms, but its ignorance of it does not allow the person to work at its full potential. When the presence of some diagnostic or area of difficulty is known, sustained therapy, the adequate use of eyeglasses and accessories or a timely school change can be facilitated for them (not all students function in schools that offer traditional learning, because they are another generation that learns in different ways than ours).

The transition to university life is not something that you should expect to happen on its own, you as a responsible parent should encourage that curiosity in your son or daughter, accompanied by opportunities that you yourself promote so your adolescent will start exposing him or herself to the university, careers, opportunities, diversity, work and spiritual experiences.

In the work issue, we know that the law in Puerto Rico prohibits the employment of minors, nonetheless your son or daughter can start to expose themselves to extracurricular experiences outside of the school environment by participating as a volunteer inside of: faith communities, nonprofit organizations, philanthropic clubs, research centers, and historical or environmental reserves, among many others. Another alternative is making possible that they participate in camps organized by universities or companies aimed at career exploration or areas of study. In the spiritual aspects, recent investigations expose the benefits of volunteering for stress management, better lifestyles, and the development of protective factors. We can’t forget that for those of us that are Christians a life in Christ will allow us to reach the plan and design of God for our life, offering that something additional called purpose and feeding our reason to be.

In this page there will be information that will facilitate the process.

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