Hacia otra operatividad de los Departamentos de Consejería Estudiantil de las instituciones educativas : una propuesta desde la perspectiva psicoanalítica.

Abstract

The Student Counseling Departments (DECE) are organisms established after the State recognition that the educational process requires intervention of professionals that can address the students’ psychosocial needs. This Departments are regulated by laws issued by the National Education System and several other competent legislative institutions that set the standards for the Department’s effectiveness; but their intervention framework is also influenced by various social, institutional and human factors of those who take part in the educational dynamics. This research project reviewed what those factors were, and how these influence the practice of DECE, with special attention in the characteristics of the discourses that command the scene, in order to propose a different operation based on the theoretical premises of psychoanalysis. A qualitative methodology was used, with interviews and bibliographic review, to locate key aspects to be considered by the professionals of the DECE. By doing so, it was possible to conclude that the practice of DECE requires maneuvering with the regulations, so that the elusive subjective dimension can be included; and that the interventions that aim to the recognition of the subject have effects that are beyond calculation, but that allow to the establishment of a necessary educational bond.