Personal Development Interview: Psychology BSc (Hons) PSY6045

This essay presents detailed answers to interview questions focusing on personal development within the context of a psychology career. The student discusses their attraction to the role of a psychotherapist, highlighting the desire to help others, the flexibility of the profession, and the opportunity for continuous learning. Strengths such as strong communication skills, empathy, critical thinking, and professionalism are emphasized as crucial assets for the role. The essay further explores how these skills and personal traits can contribute to the well-being of individuals and society, particularly in addressing mental health challenges and supporting vulnerable populations. The student aims to integrate social work skills with psychotherapy to provide comprehensive care and promote adaptive functioning in patients, drawing from theoretical knowledge and practical experiences to serve effectively as a psychotherapist. Desklib offers similar solved assignments for students.

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What attracted you to this particular job role?
Becoming a psychotherapist is a reward to me. Depending on what I am looking for in
my life and occupation, psychology seemed to me the best and fitting option. This is due to
the fact that is enjoy helping others more importantly guide them to choose the right path and
support them in their emotional needs. The career of a psychotherapist can give me scope to
learn things through facing new challenges hence I will grow and enjoy psychology. One of
the top reasons to become a psychotherapist therefore, is the ability to help people to improve
the quality of life. The thought that many people in this world are struggling with their mental
health and disorders. The psychotherapist like me can guide these people to cope with their
disabilities in one hand and overcome emotional and mental challenges. I know this can be
often stressful for me but I would think to be fortunate to get the reward of helping people to
overawed their mental challenges.
Secondly, this particular career I feel I can work for myself rather serving my superior
and earn his own profit using my efforts. I can have a flexible working schedule and set my
own hours when I shall establish my own practice. This can help me to enjoy time with my
friends and family thus I can grow enthusiasm to serve the patients. Even though the
psychotherapists work in the public hospitals where there is a huge pressure of patients, can
enjoy much flexibility in their work schedule. Hence, I can enjoy my personal and
professional life alive simultaneously.
Another highly attractive aspect of this particular career is associated with the
opportunity to work with new people and their variety of problems. Each of the new patient
has different cultural and religious background. They have different social aspects to affect
their mental health. There are thousands of reasons they need emotional guidance. Thus, I

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will be able to meet new people every day, help them to outweigh any type of challenges and
gain practical knowledge that no book can provide me.
Another reason why I want to join this career as this will help me to find dependable
organizations who help these mentally disabled people with needed resources. I want to
collaborate with these community providers to provide the patients crisis support so that they
can also face the future problems and solve such issues. Thus, I can grow my social work
skills effectively and reach more people.
Through this career, I shall be able to guide the mentally disabled people to develop
the skills through various trainings so that they can manage distress. Moreover, as the
experienced practitioner state that in the graduation programs we only learn the private
practice centric where the students merely learn the case studies theoretically but we actually
learn from the real-life examples and grow our skills to serve people.
What do you believe to be your strengths, and how would this benefit the role?
I believe that all my skills and inner traits perfectly match the criteria of this particular
career. Being a therapist, I need certain core skills without which I cannot orient myself to the
ethical codes of this career. Firstly, I have a strong communication skill which is essential to
earn the trust of the patients. This will carry me through first few sessions of the therapy until
the patients feel comfortable win talking to me. Through communication skill, I can make a
strong network of clients who will have a positive therapeutic connection with me.
Empathy in me will become my ability to identify and understand the patients’
experiences even if they cannot describe themselves or the problems. This skill will be my
strength to convince my patients and get emotionally attained with their problems. For
example, an angry individual, may be struggling with the feelings of inadequacy which

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actually fuel anger. A highly empathetic therapist will be better equipped to detect these
issues.
I am a critical thinker which helps me to diagnose and develop new treatment plans
for each time. With this critical thinking skills, I also have a scientific mind which guides me
to reach the solution in the best possible way. I can effectively use this particular skill in my
profession as this will assist me to detect the elements under surface as well as question
people to find out the way. Critical thinking will help me to identify important behavioral
explanations which the patients with mental disorder often demonstrate though their
behaviors.
I am capable to detach myself from the problems of others so that I can solve their
problems and provide an ethical therapy. By the means of boundary setting, I can be able to
obviously communicate the nature and limits of the therapeutic relationship to my clients.
Through this trait I shall not feel engrossed with the problem of the clients rather maintain my
personal point of view and treat them effectively.
As I am very professional minded, I can balance the work for which the clients have
chosen me and the business management skills. In the career of a psychotherapist, the
importance of advertising, money and other business-related factors become important when
they get attached with the private practices or take initiative to run a community service
organization of themselves. In that case I can utilize my skill to run my private practice in one
hand and manage the business on the other. However, I can also join the seminars of this type
of experts or trainings to grow my skills to balance all these.
For a psychotherapist, earning trust of the client or the patient party is of utmost
importance. Through this way only I will be able to enter or access the information which are
creating problem for my client. Through this skill of accessibility and authenticity, I shall be

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able to grow interpersonal skill so that my clients can open up and confide in me. Thus, I will
be able to leave a positive impact on their mind and serve them better.
How do you think you could provide a noble contribution to this role?
I am certain that the personal traits and skills that I possess, perfectly match the
criteria of the psychotherapist which itself is a noble job. In addition to this, I aim to use my
trainings and education to serve society. By mingling my social work skills with
psychotherapy, I can help the people suffering from depression due to various problems such
as troubled family as well as marital relationships. As a therapist, I can interact with such
problems affecting the mental health of the victims. As psychotherapy is an interactive
process for treating the behavioral problems of the patients, I can use my education in
counselling people suffering from depression and anguish. In some cases, I can attach myself
with the community service organizations that may work to help the homeless people or the
drug addicts. These people are the most vulnerable as they do not get proper guidance and
empathy from the families or relatives hence lead to depression. Through my ability and
experience, I can help these people in need and share unique methods or techniques to cure
the mental problems.
Psychotherapy has a deep as well as longstanding root in the fields of medicine,
psychology, traditional healing, nursing and social work, hence I think my potentials and
skills which I have developed in these years to educate myself in this area of study can be
effectively used to contribute in my role as a psychotherapist. As a psychotherapist, oi can
adept at helping patients and work through their emotions, create coping strategies and adapt
to their ambience. Thus, I can serve the patients more intensely due to the fact that I have a
skill for psychological assessment and examining rhea human behavior within a wider
context.

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The effectiveness of psychotherapy lies within the area of personal skill possess by
the therapist hence what skills I possess can help me to provide the symptom relief as well as
personality change. These will help me to reduce the stress on the patients by reducing future
symptomatic episodes but enhancing the quality of life. I shall serve people to promote the
adaptive functioning associate with the relationships and other issues. Though my skills as a
psychotherapist, I can help the clients suffering from mental illness in their old age in one
hand and serve the children with mental disabilities originating from the issues of disturbed
childhood or other reasons. My treatment will be effective to increase the likelihood of
making healthy life choices of the grownups thus offer various other benefits which will be
established through the method the collaboration between the patient and me. Through all my
knowledge and study both theoretically as well as practically, I shall serve my role as
psychotherapist.