Finding Your Personal Theoretical Orientation

What we bring as a person to the counseling room determines the direction we take with our clients. Coming from what I describe as a dysfunctional family and my questions of why is my family the way it is, why do I behave or think the way I do I drown to the family counseling theory. Many people including myself have why questions about their family. Some of those why questions are, “why is my family like this, where did I get this habit from, will my family ever change? The family systems approach helps solve some of those why questions.

According to the Theoretical Evaluation Self-Test created by Dr. Coleman, the theoretical orientation that I scored the highest on was cognitive. Cognitive theory is the belief that understanding the human thought process could help provide reasoning as to why humans behave the way they do. As better explained by Turner (2011), the basis of cognitive theory is the act of “understanding how humans perceive, think, and process various forms of situations and then respond to them" (Turner, 2011, p.103).

My educational goal is focused on becoming a school counselor and developing a theoretical orientation that will provide a framework for me to choose and direct therapeutic interventions with students. My theoretical orientation will guide me as I provide resources and services to students, staff and parents. Also, I want to be able to work with students so they are able to identify, understand and appropriately display the feeling they experience.

As a result of taking The Life Styles Inventory I have found that my two primary personal thinking styles fell into the groups of achievement and self-actualizing. In these groups I received my highest scores of 95%.

My professional goals as a Social Worker are to help human lives. Through enhancing their well-being and attending to the people varies daily needs and social problems. Empowering clients and helping individuals using diverse methods like counseling, working as an advocate and referrals for solutions.

Your facilitator will inform you whether you will be analyzing yourself or someone of your choice. If analyzing someone else, place yourself in their shoes, and respond to the statements as if you were them. Read all the statements, and tick those which you feel best describe you. After completing the diagnostic, you will be given a scoring grid. Circle those numbers which correspond to the statements you ticked. You should find that your answers cluster around one column. Read the description of that column, which will identify your (or your subject’s)

As a Social Worker we need to create a good alliance with our client, no matter what the client did or done. We are not in the field of judgment; we are for helping and engage the individual,

In my past social work studies I have learned that social work should not be about deciding what other people need and then doing it for them. The concept of help needs to be open to the person who requires it to be able to decide what their needs are and be included in the implementation. If I am to become a social worker, I see my job as being to use my influence and knowledge to empower the people I work with to be able to achieve their own goals, not to do things for them or without

According to the measure on the Holland Code Career Test the top three personal orientations I score highest in was persuading, helping, and organizing. With my top three personal orientations I have an opportunity to be in any field or work environments I dream of. For example, I could find a career in assisting, leading, managing data, coaching, teaching and the list goes on. I love making people believe in what I believe in and helping. Using your mind to change someone else mind is an advantage I find intrest. Persuading was my highest personal orientation, I could persuade a person just by rewording a question which works every time. Also, The Holland Code Career Test have my personal orientation accurate because I love leading a business

Social worker’s play a crucial role in the lives of others. By creating therapeutic alliances with patient’s we can create a better working relationship with them. When the client has a sense of trust and understanding with their social worker they are more adapt to disclose more information. “The recognition that social workers bring more of themselves than their professional persona has been discussed in different ways throughout the social work literature” ( Reupert, 2007, 107). The social worker’s use of self essentially defines how their practicing habits and techniques will run. We must be very mindful in how we interact with our clients because this is how our skills are conveyed through our practice.

On a personal scale, I try to understand others through DiSC personality assessment and DiSC dimensions of behavior (kind of like 'Geert Hofstede Cultural dimensions' for people). It’s the best that I can do, and then I attempt to execute PRIO with that understand. But I probably fail more

I learned in a business class when earning my BS degree in Business Administration to perform a Myers-Briggs personality test in my mind on everyone I associate with. It does not take long while speaking with someone to determine whether they are an introvert or an extrovert, and so on. The Myers-Briggs personality test give my insight into that persons thought process, which allows me to motivate and inspire them more effectively. By looking at one’s assumptions and Situatedness I should have a deeper insight into one’s inter-being.

Foreseeing myself as a professional social worker, I image a person helping others develop coping skills during difficult situations as well as creating strategies that will result in lasting behavioral changes. In addition to my personal experiences, I would rely

So, first what do we mean by making your own analysis? It simply means making your own, fast, judgment, based on what you feel and think, in that very moment. You don’t have to make an effort, but just come up with whatever comes out of your head. One way to exercise this judgement is to

My questionnaire scores resulted in me being moderately low in task orientation and moderately high is people orientation. This is completely opposite of what I saw myself as. Generally, I am one who is geared toward and center things around task completion. I am one who is satisfied with working alone and not wanting help or contact with others unless I