Describe how your work experience has prepared you for future graduate study in the program to which you are applying. As a student who graduated from a B. S in Psychology from Chaminade University with a GPA of 3. 2, I am committed to continue my education to work with a diverse client groups with a variety of mental illness and mental health problems. I have a particular interest in Psychotic disorders; I am familiar that in order to work as a counseling psychologist, I would need to require a high level of training and self-awareness, which is achieved through personal therapy, knowledge, and clinical experience.
The only experience I have that has prepared me for a future graduate study in Counseling Psychology (MSCP), with an emphasis on Mental Health Counseling is throughout my undergraduate studies. I want to continue on to working on my master’s right after I have graduate from my undergraduate studies psychology, as the knowledge of many theories and practices of psychology is still fresh in my mind.
I am convinced that increasing my access to education is one step closer to achieve my goal as a practicing counseling psychologist because it will provide me the training and self-awareness I am egger to develop. I am applying to the Chaminade University of Honolulu Graduate Program under The Master of Science in Counseling Psychology (MSCP), with an emphasis on Mental Health Counseling. I began to achieve my goal as a practicing counseling psychologist by taking courses in Psychology during my undergraduate years, one of which was PSY 406 Counseling Psychology.
PSY 406 Counseling Psychology did what it was stated and intended to do, which was to give me the opportunity to explore helping strategies and develop a philosophy of counseling. I got the chance to apply what I have learned from class in to my integrated approach to therapy by using therapeutic models that I have resonated with. Although there were many different types therapeutic models, I reseated with more towards Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Therapist using this model focuses on the overt behavior of their clients, which are the actions that can be directly observed.
Therapists can best use this theory on clients suffering from abnormal behaviors such as phobias, fears, and drug abuse—amongst others—to reinforce desirable behaviors and eliminate unwanted or maladaptive ones. I had the greatest pleasure as a student to use what I learned to write a paper on the model that I have resonated with, now I feel I deserve an opportunity to learn in depth of the methods counselors use to treat metal health as-well-as one day see it in an environmental setting when I would get the chance to intern.
In my present eagerness to step into graduate school to further my education as licensed counselor is from my dedication to understand the human mind so I can be better equipped to undertaking assessments of mental health needs; for a future in one day helping clients with the struggle with Mental health. Describe the long-range goals you have at this time relative to the program to which you are applying.
It is a given that if I am accepted to the Master of Science in Counseling Psychology (MSCP) program in Mental Health Counseling, my long-range goal would be to move forward in taking and completing my masters in the next two to three years so I can advance my knowledge to be better prepared to get my license to work as a counseling psychologists so one day I could collaboratively work with a client in a holistic and insightful way to empower a change. I need these graduate courses to help develop knowledge of different theoretical approaches.
I also need the professional supervision and advising to complete a gradate degree to obtain a job in counseling to better equate to deal with challenging situations or clients. I hope this program will give me the opportunity to conduct topical research, writing articles or papers to provide me work-based learning. I am attracted to the Master’s program at Chaminade because it’s the first school that comes to mind when I think of a Marianist (Catholic) school. Only Chaminade offers to educate the student as a whole, which suits my personal needs and professional goals.
Over the past four years of my undergraduate studies, I have experienced the Marianist values first hand. Professors I had were very helpful. I am excited about the program and want to seek a license to counsel. I appreciate that the program offers the students licensure in Mental Health Counseling. The flexibility of having two course per term once a week for the next 10 weeks and patience of the faculty, and that the program can be finish in 2 and a half years, makes Chaminade University a singular choice for my Masters degree in Counseling.