MARRIAGE AND FAMILY THERAPISTS
take an honest look at your own skills and progress. You would not be at this point if you did not already possess some good skills, and now it is time to build on these skills to help you be the best graduate student and MFT you can become. Do you feel confident in some skills but perhaps anxious about your performance in other areas? That is pretty natural at this point. This course was not meant to perfect your skills, only to provide an introduction to the ones you will need to develop in order to be successful. To progress further, you need to make a candid evaluation of just where you’d like to improve. We suggest that in this part of the Success Guide you discuss your strengths and the areas where you could improve. By identifying both strengths and areas where you need further help in skill building you can help your Instructors and your Academic Advisor to direct you to additional resources and in our resource data bank that can help you develop skills even as you learn the material you’ll be studying in your courses.
Part 2: Program Resources.
In this course, you have picked up a lot of tips and tools for success here. While they’re still fresh in your mind, compile a toolbox for yourself. Write down the tips that were important to you, make a few notes about how they can help, and compile this into a guide that you can use throughout your program.
Part 3: Motivation Touchstone.
As you undertake your graduate degree you will likely face a multitude of pressures and constraints. That’s great – you know you are growing if your problems are different problems from the ones you had earlier! To keep your spirits up, prepare a touchstone, something you can turn to when the going gets tough that can motivate you. This might be an image of yourself getting that degree, or a picture of your family and support team, or even just a lovely image that really helps you relax and refresh.
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Marriage and family therapists (MFTs) are usually concerned with the training of the personal experiences of their trainees both in a clinical setting and an academic setting. The same MFTs are also concerned about their self-development in relation to the therapeutic process. This therefore creates some kind of imbalance especially for MFTs who are not very well skilled. Although most people are attracted to the MFT profession with the aim of nurturing their self-development and personal growth, the graduate program mostly ignores such and is nonexistent.
One of the important skills that I have been able to acquire as an MFT is self-improvement. With self-improvement, I can be able to prevent myself from potentially harming the patients. This basically means self-integration with myself. It is through such and establishing……………
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