Psychologist Personal Statement

During my years as both an undergraduate and graduate, I have gained an abundant amount of professional experience from two internships that have greatly impacted my career, over the course of the last two years. Comparatively, one of those experiences comes from my internship at Agape Hospice of York County, South Carolina. It was at this site, I was enabled to work with elderly adults diagnosed with terminal illnesses, who lived in the rural area. At that time, I was able to work with patients both in his or her home and in a facility setting. Working alongside influential coworkers and higher-ups, I was later able to find resources in the community for these individuals, facilitate grief groups, and conduct referrals and discharge planning, …show more content…
Through DBT, I have been able to help clients create beneficial coping skills, to cease the activity of harming one self. Through these professional experiences my interpersonal skills, knowledge, and documentation as a future psychologist has improved tremendously. Certainly from the professional buildup of my career, my interest has expanded to desiring to work with clients who deal with severe mental illness like schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder and major depression. By being the psychologist I aspire to be, in the near future, my title will grant me the ability to diagnose and provide psychotherapy services to my clients. Therefore, it is for this reason I work dutifully to absorb all that I need from my internships, wherein, my interest for administrating evaluations and being able to conduct psychological testing has piqued. Moreover, my interest also includes working with clients who have been sexual abused, those who committed the sexual act (e.g. pedophiles) and adolescents who have learning disabilities who are unaware or ashamed of his or her