Enhance Critical Thinking Skills for Mental Health Counseling

This assignment centers around strengthening critical thinking skills for a counseling role, with a particular focus on mental health and wellbeing. It explores prioritizing objectives, discussing current areas of focus, expected contributions to the profession, target areas for future growth in multicultural awareness, and other attributes for a brighter future. The assignment is based on personal experiences and research, including references from books and online sources.

Statement of Interest

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Impact of personal, academic, organizational, volunteer and/or paid work experiences on
counselling profession.................................................................................................................1
2. Reasons for seeking graduate work at this time......................................................................1
3. Some intellectual and personal attributes that suited for the profession of counselling..........2
4. Discuss on a current area to focus on as a counsellor highlighting ........................................2
5. How do you expect to contribute to the counselling profession?............................................2
6. Target area for future growth in terms of multicultural awareness?.......................................3
7. Other attributes that will help to increase brighter future........................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

1. Impact of personal, academic, organizational, volunteer and/or paid work experiences on
counselling profession.
Counselling is focussed on the development of a professional relationship as a mean
of enabling the individuals, their families and a group of people to attain both mental and
physical wellbeing for a successful accomplishment of their education or career related goals
(McLeod, 2014). On considering my decision of becoming a counsellor, a leading reason
behind that is to serve the community people in the best possible manner. Herein, I have been
influenced from my previous work experiences where I came across many such people who
are going through a difficult phase of their life and are tremendously depressed. Also, they
are seeking help of a professional counsellor who can truly understand their problem and
come up with effective solutions to resolve the same. I am an undergraduate in the field of
sociology and anthropology that has assisted me in investigating several aspects of human’s
life and I feel myself to be ready for this endeavour. Despite of choosing a distinct career in
the past and not directly getting into the field of counselling, I feel myself connected to the
people after so many interactions and confident about assisting them in getting a better life.
For this reason, I have opted to transform into the field of counselling.
2. Reasons for seeking graduate work at this time.
There exists a phase where everyone in their life feels the need of either counselling
others or themselves. Whereas, there together occurs a huge difference between a
professional counsellor with that to the amateur counsellors. This is basically on relating the
abilities of both aforesaid type of counsellors where the professionals are highly proficient in
supporting the individuals to lead a more blissful and prolific lifestyle (Hodges, 2014). This
stands to be a major reason behind looking for graduate work at this point of time where I
want a thorough replenishment of my existing abilities in this field. This is to become enough
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proficient in this field of work where from this program, I duly expect to get a thorough
knowledge about counselling profession and its other related considerations.
3. Some intellectual and personal attributes that suited for the profession of counselling.
Along with the possession of excellent communication, presentation, empathetic
listening and observational skills, I can together operate in a multidisciplinary team of
professionals and serve the users in the most expertise manner. Also, I have a prior
experience of using counselling modality for supporting the patients and their families who
are under stress with a special ability of counselling them at the time of grief. Apart from this,
I together believe to work in culturally varied situations by assimilating interdisciplinary
communication. Beside this, my exceptional research skills help me to use the most updated
data as a way of assuring superior patient care. However, there together exists such petite
traits of mine that are required to be improved for a better service to the patients where I need
to strengthen my critical thinking skills to accordingly prioritize the objectives.
4. Discuss on a current area to focus on as a counsellor highlighting.
The current area on which I will be envisioned to concentrate more as a counsellor is
mental health and wellbeing. The reason behind this is my previous work experience from
where, I am confident about effectively directing the despondent people. Also, my keen
interest in researching has together guided me well to investigate in this area and I am thus
aspiring to become a mental health practitioner in the future.
5. How do you expect to contribute to the counselling profession?
By undertaking the profession of counselling, I am expecting to contribute the society
and the vulnerable people in the community in the most effective manner. This is basically to
do justice with this profession that is utterly aimed at aiding the individuals in adopting a
contented lifestyle for both their mental and physical wellbeing. Respecting the trend of
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cultural diversity, I would together strive to educate others regarding the same and adopt a
flexible approach to comprehend various multicultural issues in medical practice.
6. Target area for future growth in terms of multicultural awareness?
Multicultural Awareness includes a better understanding, compassion and gratitude of
the past, experiences, standards, and lifestyles of groups. This is referred to be one of the
most considerate aspect of a professional counsellor where multicultural awareness is never
restricted to some leading considerations (Ratts and et. al., 2016). This involves race, gender,
religious relationship, physical and mental competences, ethnicity, sexual orientation and
social economy status. For future growth, I would like to target upon the improvement of
cultural competencies of treatment programs.
7. Other attributes that will help to increase brighter future.
I would firstly like you to consider my enthusiastic approach towards serving the
society and community people by together referring to my prequalified aspects. Likewise, I
am also looking for a brighter future of not only my own personal and professional agendas,
but is together keen to serve the individuals in the best possible way. I want them to have a
similar set of agenda in their own life and encourage them to achieve their aspirations with
best possible measures.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journal
McLeod, J., 2014. Doing research in counselling and psychotherapy. Sage.
Ratts, M.J. and et. al., 2016. Multicultural and social justice counseling competencies:
Guidelines for the counseling profession. Journal of Multicultural Counseling and
Development. 44(1). pp.28-48.
Online
Hodges, S., 2014. The Importance of Counseling. [Online]. Available through:
<https://www.niagara.edu/the-importance-of-counseling/>.
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