Straight to university, first an apprenticeship or a gap year? Many high school graduates find it difficult to make a decision. The psychologist Ralph Schliewenz explains what gives orientation and how to master this difficult transition phase.
The time after graduation is often a phase of uncertainty for young people. Something completely natural, says Ralph Schliewenz, 49. He works as a qualified psychologist and child and adolescent psychotherapist at the LWL University Hospital Hamm in North Rhine-Westphalia and is also a board member of the Clinical Psychology Section at the Federal Association of German Psychologists. Schliewenz explains who and what helps with orientation when some school leavers can no longer see the forest for the trees.