Mental Illness Personal Statement

I have chosen to enter the field of Mental Health Counseling at this particular time in my life because I would like to learn the skills needed to help people with their life and mental health issues. While attending the University of Saint Joseph during my undergraduate years I took various courses that have led me to making my decision. The courses I took focused on business, biology, social work, and psychology. After graduation I decided to take a year off and gain work experience in customer service and health care. I wanted to experience working with the people in my community. I was hired as a pharmacy technician at a Walgreens in Vernon. Working as a pharmacy technician has been a very rewarding experience for me and I learned a lot about people and their unique needs. I also learned about patient care and how to be pacient and understanding under stressful situations.

My passion and determination to undertake study within the mental health sector dwells from the insight I have been privileged to gain in my current role as a link care coordinator, working with people who suffer from a range of ailments within the mental health spectrum; from learning disabilities, Alzheimer’s, Dementia, OCD, Autism to name but a few.

I have worked incredibly hard to obtain skills from various organisations to better understand mental health. I decided I needed to acquire additional work experience to give my application some weight. I am tenacious by nature and therefore despite being somewhat academically inferior to my rivals, I make up for in passion, determination and professionalism. I can assure you my grade does not define my ability to work with vulnerable people, families and colleagues and I would really like the opportunity to demonstrate this at interview. I am keen to explore the depths of applying psychology to health and the behaviour-change processes involved with working with young people in particular.

As the first generation in my family to go to college I learned the importance of education. I graduated from Benedictine University with a Bachelors in Science and an Environment Certificate. I became intregted by pharmacy when I started to spent countless hours at a hospital watching my grandfather go in and out of surgeries and treatments for cancer. Seeing the different medication being handed to him inspired me to understand biological and chemical processes that happened. A Pharmacists, role is to aim to help patients treat illness by introducing new developed treatment of medicines with a range of patients. I began to take special interest in memorizing all my grandfather’s medications and how practical and clinical aspect pharmacy worked.

After the completion of graduation, I intend to work with mental health patients within the correctional system. I understand that I need to further my education in order to be a licensed psychologist, so therefore I intend to do so at an accredited university. Mental health has been an intense interest of mine since a tragedy a few years ago. Depression stole my life, just like it steals thousands of lives every year. I had no idea what I was drowning in. Depression followed me like a shadow and consumed me like a tornado. It blinded me from being the perfectionist I once was. So much was expected from me, so much was assumed for me to be able to conquer. By outward appearance I had it all going for me; I had received a division one athletic

When most people hear Pharmacist, they think of a drug store like Walgreens or CVS. However, a Pharmacist is capable of more than just working in a drug store. Pharmacists play a major role in healthcare today with many job opportunities. There are many different fields and career paths that a Pharmacist can choose. This essay will explore three different pharmacy careers that was examined through data collected by a survey on the internet. The three career pathways are Ambulatory Care Pharmacy, Chain Community Pharmacy, and Community Health Center Pharmacy.

Mental health counseling gives me a positive outlook regarding my life. I feel that Walden University will certainly prepare me to be an effective mental health counselor. The mental health-counseling program at Walden will prepare to care for individuals with various mental issues. I am positive that I will learn how to aid my clients with mental health problems through various programs and services. Being that its imperative to display excellent listening skills, memorandum, and deliver positive replies with kindness.

I have always known that I wanted to help people and this the reason I choose Mental Health Counseling as my major. After the classes I have taken at Long Island University (LIU), I have come to the realization that my passion lies in working with families. This is the reason I would like to change my major to Marriage and Family Therapy.

Academically, I am interested in mental health care system reform and specifically, how we can achieve better outcomes for people with mental health and addiction issues, at a lower cost. While mental health care programs and services have dramatically improved over the past 40 years, serious problems persist and dramatic changes are needed. I am interested in this issue because of my extensive professional and volunteer work in the mental health care field. I currently work as a Hospital Outreach Worker with the Canadian Medical Health Association’s Emergency Department Hospital Outreach team. Research tells us that patients with mental illness and addictions issues are often brought by ambulance to the emergency room because there is nowhere else for them to go.

Stephanie, I agree with your statement about the advantage of diagnosing someone with a mental illness in regards to improving their educational outcome. For instance, if a child is diagnosed with autism at an early age, they can receive the early intervention they need in order to help them learn and develop as children their age. Also, about you statement about your real world experience with your client. In my opinion, they may have said that statement not intentionally, but because of what they believe they should have said based on what they have learned by other people around

Thank you for helping me through the semester, your assignments were challenging and thought me to write better emails.

In choosing a topic for this final portfolio assignment, I thought of different ideas that I could use to develop my critical thinking skills as well as write about a topic that would be of interest to me. Although I went through a number of topics, I chose to write about mental illness. Mental illness has become a term that has been publicized in the last couple of years and, I feel is most associated with depression or schizophrenia. But there are a number of disorders that fall under the mental illness category, such as anxiety, psychotic disorders, bipolar disorder, and dementia/Alzheimer’s disease. In analyzing data and statistical information, we understand the severity of how large mental illness is affecting people in the United States. This, along with understanding how mental illness develops, will allow for mental illness literacy and help remove or at least, ease the stigma of mental illness.

As I grew and got involved more involved in our social problems, I developed a passion for mental/physical health, also for women rights. If I got chosen to be an intern, I would love to work in any area that involve the areas mentioned. Why? I think mental/physical health is crucial to have a functioning society, without health there’s nothing. Any activity that involves one of the options I mentioned, I would gladly work in.

Furthermore, my profound interest in Science courses has also helped direct me toward the pharmacy profession. During my undergraduate years, my greatest interest presented in the courses that taught about Health Sciences. It fascinated me to understand the functions and mechanics of the body and moreover, how certain drugs can interact with some of these processes. I am anticipating to learn more in detail about the several different medications and how

Pharmacists play a vital and active role in society in the health care system where they provide medicines to patients as well as providing information about the medicine such as side effects. Pharmacology interests me as I can apply my learning to ensure I know how to develop and use medicines for the maximum benefit of patients. I also admire that it is a career where I can communicate with the public and help patients to take part in decisions which affect their health and wellbeing. In addition, I will constantly be developing my knowledge throughout the years and putting my knowledge into practice.