ANN Harris

U09a1

Miatta R. Yeanay

COUN 5279

September 9, 2017

Dr. Lynne Hale

Abstract

The paper focuses on Mia and her professional background as a mental psychologist. It uses the Jungian personality approach and the big personality trait theory to evaluate her career and the plan she wants to undertake to influence her professional background.

Self-Career Assessment Portfolio

The paper revolves around the aspect of discussing the career plan of a client who is motivated to become one of the most successful professionals in the workplace. It tries to create a more defined and profound career plan that ensures positive development towards the career development of the client being discussed. In the above case, it is the 40-year-old Mia whose career is being discussed to enhance a positive developmental status in the profession she practices. The society comprises of many careers which are different in their status of operations and applicability nature. It is important to note the unique status of the careers to enable the client to develop a positive plan that motivates career growth. For the case of Mia, she practices mental psychology and pursues some additional courses for her to become successful. The interview tries to find out the strengths and weaknesses she possesses and how it influences growth in her career.

The interview uses the Jungian Personality Test and the Big Five Personality Theory to evaluate the possible approaches employed to determine success in her career. It focuses on the values and the interpretation process related to the development of her career. The paper creates a clear description of the various ways that the client may employ in determining success in her profession while focusing on the different challenges affecting her social and professional status. Mia needs to take advantage of the market and the different incentives found in it to enable her to acquire her key career goal. She should be on the front lines to embrace change in mental psychology and use it for her personal growth and development.

Client Profile

The name of the client is Mia. She is a forty years old lady who comes from Virginia. She is Caucasian and married with children. Mia is a practicing mental psychologist and she is currently studying further into the course to acquire additional knowledge and skills to strengthen her professional background. Mia is outgoing and likes to meet new people. She is a kind lady whose social and professional goals are to assist those around her to live better lives as compared to their status. Mia is also religious and appreciates everything to do with her faith. She teaches her children to be independent thinkers and to live as per the virtues that related to moral living. Mia has enjoyed a successful professional background in the last two decades due to her personality and how she relates with those around her.

Mia likes to work with people from all walks of life. She is interested in learning a new culture, a factor that motivates her to enjoy interacting and mingling with people who come from different cultural and social backgrounds. The same applies to her workplace, it comprises of people from diverse cultural beliefs and life, which makes her enjoy her life and work. After the interview, it is evident that Mia is a force to recognize and reckon with due to the positive energy she has towards life and the aspect of success. Mia does not entertain nonsense and she hates people who are not serious about the development of their lives. She is a woman that puts more energy and thought into her work to deliver quality results. She likes spending time with her patient and discussing with them different issues affecting their lives. She is a woman who enjoys developing the right approaches that motivate positive mental status among the patients she diagnoses and treats daily.

Assessment Results

According to the 16 Type Jungian personality test, Mia is a Protagonist, a mediator, a defender, an adventurer, and a great debater. When it comes to using the big 3 personality theory, Mia tends to show a sense of extroversion, openness, and conscientiousness. The two personality tests show that Mia is an outgoing individual with a lively personality. She has an open opinion towards the aspect of change. She takes the change with an open mind and ensures that it does not affect her life in a negative manner. Mia is full of warmth when it comes to interacting with other people around her. She treats everyone equally, including the patients she meets in her mental psychology profession. As much as she deals with a sensitive profession, she tends to have a stable emotional status that does not affect her thinking and feelings. Mia makes sure that her personal life is not interfering her with her work.

Interpretation of Assessments

Having a profession that involves several people and issues, Mia has a lot to change in her life to meet her career goals. The first thing that is evident from her personality is that she is well suited to undertake the different responsibilities that are involved in the profession of a mental psychologist. She is outgoing and open minded about different issues that affect the society, and mostly her patients. She does not take center stage in the counseling and treatment process of her clients. She ensures that she gives them the opportunity to express themselves and talk about their thoughts and emotions.

It is from the above that she can diagnose them and treat them to acquire a positive mental and social status. Both the Jungian and the 3 Big personality theories show that she has vulnerabilities of letting people deep into her heart, a major negative factor that may affect her career. The values show that Mia is a conventional, social, and realistic individual who is willing to change her working and social environment. She needs to continue using her personality and values to change the society around her positively and contribute to its development.

Professional Assets/Career Options

Mia is a trained mental psychologist and she continues to train herself in the course for improving her skills and knowledge. She has an extensive experience in the provision of quality results to her patients. She has served in the profession for several years making her one of the best professional mental psychologists in the society. Mia would like to train hard for her to become a successful senior manager in her professional environment. It is a dream for everyone to climb the career ladder and become recognized in their profession (Haynie & Shepherd, 2011).

Mia needs to focus on strengthening her relationship more on the counseling process and the treatment process to influence the proper management of her patient. She needs to prioritize on the type of disorders she needs to focus on as compared to others. It is important for any profession to specialize regarding the disorders to undertake in the profession (Joireman, Daniels, George‐Falvy, & Kamdar, 2006). Mia needs to consider working hard and not involve the personal life of her clients in the work she undertakes. She is a caring individual with love for her patient, but she may sometimes let it ruin her career development. She needs to show empathy and not sympathy to the patient when dealing with their issues.

Individual Career Plan

The career plan of Mia is evident from her personality and her contribution to the profession of mental psychology. Mia would like to be recognized as being among the best mental psychologists in the next five years. She plans to start her personal private practice with branches in different parts of Virginia and the country at large. Mia plans to start a foundation that will assist children and women who suffer from mental disorders. She wants to network with the different members of the society to ensure development. Mental psychology is a wide profession and requires the collaboration of different stakeholders to make work easy (Rogers & Shuman, 2000). Mia understands that she is not able to undertake this alone.

She plans to have membership portfolio in her practice that will assist her in the delivery of better services to clients in the society. Mia also plans to make the profession of mental psychology known in the society. Not every individual appreciates the work undertaken by mental psychologists and that is the reason as to why she has gone back to school. The above move is to ensure that people respect what she does.

Personal Reflection

Based on the evaluation of the client, is evident that careers may be changed at any given time. People should think of possible ways to enhance their career growth through aligning them with their personalities. People should not choose careers because they like them but because they have the capacity to handle them (Shane, Mary, & Robert , 2013). It is important to focus on creating a sustainable career path through our studies and investing in our experiences as individuals in the society. We should consider strengthening our advantages and eliminating our weaknesses to influence growth in our careers.

Conclusion

Both the Jungian personality approach and the big personality theory show that people have virtues and a personality with different traits that influence them to select specific career paths. Mia has shown that by focusing on strengthening her skills in mental psychology and not in any other area of practice. Therefore, people should learn from their intuition and experiences to enable them to draft a successful career path.

References

Haynie, J., & Shepherd, D. (2011). Toward a Theory of Discontinuous Career Transition: Investigating Career Transitions Necessitated by Traumatic Life Events. A Psychological Approach to Entrepreneurship, 340-363. doi:10.4337/9781783479801.00027

Joireman, J., Daniels, D., George‐Falvy, J., & Kamdar, D. (2006). Organizational citizenship behaviors as a function of empathy, consideration of future consequences, and employee time horizon: An initial exploration using an in‐basket simulation of OCBs. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 36(9), 2266-2292.

Rogers, R., & Shuman, D. (2000). Conducting insanity evaluations . New York: Guilford Press.

Shane, S. B., Mary, A. C., & Robert , L. D. (2013). Ethical Practice in Forensic Psychology. American Psychological Association.