Maria de Conceicao Guilherme Soares is a psychologist and also a PhD student at the University of Lisbon (ULisbon). She’s writing her thesis entitled “The psychology of life construction: Incursions in the concept of adaptability for the study of parental influence on adolescents’ career construction”, under the supervision of Prof. Maria Eduarda Duarte. Her main research topic is parental influence and involvement in children’s career development and construction, about which she has made studies, publications and presentations, and was also the theme of her master´s dissertation in Psychology (1999) and several training activities undertaken with Portuguese career technicians. Another topic of interest of her is the organization of Career Guidance and Counseling (CG&C) Services, especially in High Education: their scope, competences, agents, methodologies and quality. She is now a senior technician at the Studies & Planning Office of the ULisbon. From 1995 to June 2014 she worked as a psychologist in the Career Guidance Institute (Instituto de Orientação Profissional – IOP) of ULisbon where she was co-responsible for Research & Projects’ Development. She had also taken responsibilities in other domains of CG&C, namely consultation, training and cooperation in national and international projects. She participated in Portuguese works for the Life Designing International Research Group. From 1989 to 1995 she was a school counselor in the secondary level of education. She’s 48 years old, lives in Lisbon, is married and has two daughters, Sara and Mariana, 24 and 22 years old. Her favorite motto is “Everything is worth, If the soul is not small”.