Short-Term Professional Goals

My overall academic goal is to receive a doctorate degree in psychology. I decided that I wanted to become a psychologist in high school. Before my senior year in high school, I wanted to be a surgeon but the mental health field captivated my interest. During my senior year in high school, I enrolled in an Introduction to Psychology course to see if this sparked any interest in me. I chose to pursue a PsyD over a Ph.D. because PsyD focuses on a student to become a practitioner and a Ph.D. prepares a student to become a researcher. I assisted in an experiment and I found early in the experiment that this was not my strongest ability. Pursing graduated school would help me in my goal of counsel military personnel and their families.

My short-term professional goals are to graduate college and enroll into a graduate program. In the graduate program, I would like to master my counseling skills and earn my doctorate degree. In the long term, I would like to increase my knowledge of counseling and utilize the skills I have learned and apply them to identifying and diagnosing mental illness in military personnel. Ultimately, I would like to become license and counsel military personnel and their families.

Attending Argosy University in Washington D.C. would help me to achieve my goal of becoming a psychologist. APA accreditation is a very important factor for me applying this graduate program. Some of the practicum sites include VA hospitals, which would help prepare me for the population I would like to work with. My education as an undergraduate has given me a strong foundation for several of courses required for the degree. The class sizes are small and the student/faculty relationships are strong, which is a very important factor for me applying this graduate

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