Career Goal Of Working In Mental Health

As a MSW Intern at Beyond Emancipation, I am in a position to offer information and referrals to those who

Further, my experience in life has influence my interaction between my social identities and becoming a social worker. As a multiracial female I have experienced both target and agent status. This experience will assist in my journey and growth in becoming a social worker. I will have the knowledge and skills to help individuals escape the stigma of a particular social identity. In time my growth in the field of social will give me a different perspective on topics I am bias towards. As a social worker certain values are demonstrated to assist the client in receiving adequate service. Dedication is a value I admire in the field of social work, but at times clients may feel differently and a conflict of interest can

I have a dream that one day I will get the joy of achieving my goals as a psychiatric nurse practitioner. Where I will not “just” go because it is my job, but go because I have a sincere desire to go. I dream to have the satisfaction of helping others become fulfilled. I have high hopes to climb the ladder, to then open up my own facility. I have a dream that as I go to college I will not have to fret about money, but to focus on my grades. I have a dream that I will strive to do all I can to ensure my future me is at the best she can be. I have a dream that the place I call home will be as big as the Cinderella palace that I have always adored. I have a dream that my future off springs will be set for life, so they will never have to question

The results were obtained through surveys administered in 2010 at a social work conference, with 226 subjects completing the survey in full. The majority of the subjects were female and/or Caucasian, and a most of them had achieved at least an MSW.

Becoming a mental health counselor wasn't an easy decision to come about. Hard to become prior to choosing to be a mental health counselor I have a desire to be a special-education teacher, specialize in working with children on the asperger's spectrum of autism. The reason I decided to choose to change my professional goals was because I thought as a counselor I will be able to work with children on different disabilities and adults on a one-to-one basis. Dream experience as a preschool teacher, many colleges have said that I have a sense of counseling and understanding when dealing with children and people. My previous class prior to this class give me a better understanding of what my goals are and how to reach them. So I truly believe

My specific career ideas are still a little vague, but, I do know mental health is something that I am going to pursue in one way or another. Mental health has always intrigued me a little because I had an Uncle with schizophrenia, I never met him and my Mom’s family doesn’t really talk about him a whole lot, but I still think about him a lot. I got to see what happened with his family after, but I can’t see how they were before, and I will always wonder about how he might have influenced my life. My interest in mental health became more directed when I took my first psychology class, the introductory psychology class at Montgomery college in the fall of 2014. I really liked it, partially thanks to the teacher I had, but mostly because it gave me a better understanding of what mental health is. The next psychology class I took was on personalities and it confirmed that psychology and mental health are something I truly am passionate about.

After I graduate from college and finish my military career, I plan on becoming an adolescent mental health therapist. As an adolescent mental health therapist, I hope to provide mental health therapy to elementary aged clients. Providing a safe and positive environment where children can alleviate or eliminate presenting issues and problems allowing them to live a functional positive life and perform higher in academics. As well as teach resilience and enhance quality of life by appropriate clinical service delivery and identification.

Upon entering into Barry University (B.U.), I was an insecure black African- American woman full of passion coupled with a myriad misconceptions of what I thought social work consist of. However, during my two years as a undergrad student I learned that those misconceptions had kept me stagnant in facing and understanding my past traumatic events of life that could have had an negative effected on further clients and how I interact with others. For that reason, I would say my best experience in Barry’s BSW program was an assignment that I had to partake in called the Cultural Journal. This assignment not only hope me to learned about my cohorts’ culture as a Philippine woman, I learned that our culture had a lot in common such as that the

For as long as I can remember I have always wanted to be a mental health therapist. I want to work with kids and help them through whatever they might be going through. I want to be able to talk about what it is like to have a mental health issue.

At the time of my graduation, however, I was six months pregnant and knew that I had too much going on to start a master’s program. In the past year, I have spent a lot of time researching different schools and programs. I chose the MFT program at VSU because Marriage and Family therapists can work in a variety of places with people from all walks of life. Of course I am biased towards VSU because it’s where I received my bachelor’s, but after reading about the MFT program, the emphasis on multiple perspectives and diversity sold me on my decision to apply. I come from a very diverse family, some of which have also struggled with many mental health issues. Because of this, appreciation of differences taken on with an open mind is very important to me. After completion of my graduate degree, my goal is to work in a mental health institution for children and adolescents. I have always had a special place in my heart for young children and have worked with an array of ages throughout my time as an undergraduate. Mental health disorders are so easily overlooked, especially in children, so I want to be an advocate for those in need.

One interesting career is a mental health counselor which allows for numerous roles within the criminal justice system. This position is an excellent opportunity since I am reaching toward a Bachelor of Science under Psychology. An example is a venture to work in the rehabilitation of offenders to become prepared for their release such as deterrence of recidivism. It happens to provide a good median salary of $40,850; however, the single analysis is research of nearly 20,000 job postings based on identification software three years ago. Ultimately, this field trip’s data opens on 10 prospective jobs available to criminal justice degree holders such as the case of counselor working in correctional

Approximately 200,000 individuals with schizophrenia or manic-depressive illness are homeless, constituting one-third of the approximately 600,000 homeless populations. In today’s society, metal health and illnesses are overlooked and sweep under the rug as if they are not a real life issue. Mental health hit home the beginning of my junior year in high school, when my older cousin was diagnosed with schizophrenia and ended in prison. He was actually a great person, but did not receive the proper help he needed to function as “normal” individual in society; this is why I chose a career path in psychology. I want to be a psychologist and work with patients of with schizophrenia. I would love to make an actual difference in this field by conducting

Who am I? What is the point of knowing who I am? We are all the same, right? Susie Clevenger, a poet, said that “there is only one you. Stop trying to devalue yourself by trying to be a copy of someone else” (Clevenger, 2013). This encouraged me to accept who I am, instead of looking at others around me to form my identity. On reading “Multicultural Social Work Practice: A Competency-Based Approach to Diversity and Social Justice”, I have discovered how my personal identity was formed by using the Racial/Cultural Identity Development Model and Feminist - Based Identity Model. In addition to exploring my cultural Identity, I will be discussing how prejudice impacted my life and what privileges were given to me because of my identity. Lastly, I will talk about my cultural competence and the plans that I will have in place for me to improve on it.

I have had many life experiences which have helped me foster an understanding of diversity. When I was in the military I was stationed in South Korea and I experienced diversity on a major scale. For once in my life I was considered the minority. However, the strongest experience I have with diversity was growing up with a mother with a developmental disability, this life experience taught me to be accepting of others. It is a social worker’s primary responsibility to respect the inherent dignity and worth of a person. I believe that I had this social work value instilled in me when I was a child. From a young age, I have been very accepting of people with disabilities in the local community. The exposure to this world has also influenced

Mental illness has been a topic that I have become very interested in over the past couple of years.. The guest speakers, who were introduced through the University of Houston Downtown Social Work Department, from the Mental Health and Mental Retardation Association (MHMRA) of Harris County and Texas Children’s’ Hospital have played an influential role in my decision to choose a career path in helping those whom suffer from mental illness.