Chiara Annovazzi is post-graduated at Master's Degree in Psychology of Social Processes, Decision-making and Economic Behavior, with a final essay about “Gender and Politics”. Now she is a PhD student in Social, Cognitive and Clinical Psychology at Milan Bicocca University with a project whose aim is to analyze how the parents could influence the level of hope, resilience and optimism in their disabled sons and daughters. The goal of this project is to deepen this kind of influence: in particular she’s been examining if it exists, how it works and how it can condition the choices of the offspring between work and an university course or between different kind of work/faculty. Her research interests include career counselling, gender psychology and cross-cultural psychology. Also, she works in the Career Counselling Service in the Milan Bicocca University(http://tutoring.psico.unimib.it/psicologia/sportello/): she does researches for the service and she works as a Psychologist. She has a psychosocial approach and her work consists in providing educational guidance and support to make the students gain self-awareness: the aims are to help prospective students to make aware career choices and to encourage current students to maintain their career goals. In the service it is used online counselling (e-mail, websites) telephone sessions, personalized individual psychosocial counselling (face-to-face appointments) and face-to-face guidance groups (mature students guidance groups). She is a SIO (Italian Society Guidance) and IAAP (International Association of Applied Psychology) member.