Your Statement of Purpose

Counselling

Counselling is a rewarding, challenging and fulfilling career, and it is important that applicants demonstrate some general attributes that are necessary for counselling work.

In order to adhere to accreditation requirements with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia and the Australian Counselling Association, you will need to answer the following questions to demonstrate your academic and personal suitability for the Counselling Programs. You should aim to answer each question in a maximum of 200 words.

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Question 1: Describe what has inspired you to become a counsellor and outline why you think counselling is a positive career choice. In your response, please address the following questions: - Who and what has inspired you to become a counsellor? - What is your understanding of what counselling entails? - What area of counselling most interests you and why? For example - drugs and alcohol, children, trauma, couples and - relationships.


Question 2: Counselling programs require students to have the capacity to relate to people. Describe how well you think you relate (empathise, understand, communicate) to people. In your response, please consider the following questions: - How have you been involved in 'helping' people in the past? - What groups have you been involved in, and what was your unique contribution to the group? - What skills and potential qualities will you bring to counselling? - What have you learnt in your everyday life about what helps when people are struggling?


Question 3: Training to become a counsellor involves learning to develop reflexivity – the process of becoming self-aware. Comment on your level of self-awareness and how this has developed over time. In your response, please consider the following questions: - How have you demonstrated that you can receive, reflect on and act on feedback? - What do you do to overcome obstacles, challenges or problems? - What are some of your personal values and why?


Question 4: What is your experience of academic writing and research? This question is for Master of Counselling applicants only. In your response, please address the following questions: - What sort of academic writing have you done in the past? - Have you any experience with qualitative research? - Are you interested in completing a research project as part of your Masters program?


I am studying * on the Fremantle Campus on the Sydney Campus as an International student as a fully-online learning student

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