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How are your goals influencing what you are doing now?
I do appreciate the Adlerian perspective and like to have multiple types of goals like the three universal life tasks explain. My social task, love/marriage task, and work tasks are typically evolving as I learn more about what I want, who I am, and the reality of those goals. For example, the biggest goal in my life right now that I am contributing to is my work task, but it affects my love/marriage task and social task. I currently work for the State of CT for State VR and it requires a masters degree, which I find myself here at Springfield College completing. This helps contribute to my work goal to become a counselor from a trainee, make more money to support my personal goals, but become a better counselor and hopefully down the line move up to improve services and mentor other counselors to evolve the field and contribute to a better system. Need Assignment Help?
How do you think your past has influenced your future goals?
My past heavily influenced my future goals and each goal that ever lead up to this point. Growing up, my father was severely affected by his mental health where he tried to cope with alcohol and drugs and ultimately lost his life when I was 18. I continued to gear my bachelors degree in the field of psychology to help people like my dad to recovery and find resources to help them. Drug and alcohol rehabilitation was a bit triggering at the time, but I wanted to work with severe mental health. This lead me to starting in a non profit working with people living with mental health that wanted to find meaningful employment to aid in their recovery. 10 years later and now I am moving further into that field through Vocational Rehabilitation and my master's degree.
In what ways can you apply the goal oriented approach to your work as a therapist?
I currently work in a goal oriented way through State VR. We gather information, assess how disability is affecting their employment goals, then help them remove these barriers through education, training, and obtaining/maintaining employment. If other areas of life are impeding these goals we then bring in other resources to help. We also use encouraging quite a bit, but a pattern I keep finding in some of my individuals is the learned helplessness that overprotection has affected. Working with transitional aged young adults has many parents involved, but some want to control how their young adult participates in their programming or make their decisions for them. I would love to learn more of family constellations and see how I can implement that since I work with so many family dynamics that affect the individual.
Why do you feel it is important to select goals that may be beyond our reach?
It is important to select goals beyond our reach because it allows us to continue to strive and grow. If we choose goals that are too little, we may never leave our comfort zones. You can always evolve and pivot your goals to continue to match what you want, but what is important is moving forward.
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