effects of interpersonal and work relationships
Paper instructions:
Describe two current personality features or patterns you have which positively affect your interpersonal and work relationships, and two current personality features or patterns you have which negatively affect your interpersonal and work relationships. How do you imagine that each of these four characteristics could affect your work as a Marriage and Family Therapist or a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, particularly while conducting psychotherapy and counseling?
Essays are designed to assess:
Insight and self-awareness about one?s own patterns and how they affect work and relationships.
Motivation for becoming a therapist or counselor.
Writing ability.
Information to consider when writing the essays:
Awareness of one’s personal, familial, and a cultural pattern is important. You are expected to have, and be able to articulate, self-knowledge and self-assessment.
Attention to, and coping with, personal and interpersonal problems is important to the role of a MAC student, MFT, and LPCC.
Appropriate self-disclosure is an important aspect of learning in the MAC, in supervision, and in the required psychotherapy.
You are expected to write well as both a graduate student and as a psychology professional.
You should be specific as possible in the essays, and disclose at whatever level you think is appropriate.
