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Career Goal as Family Therapistr

My ultimate career goal is to work as a marriage and family therapist, with a focus on working with children aged three to 18, along with their parents. To me, helping children to grow up in a healthy and nurturing environment has often been a key concern for me. Since their future development as adults is affected by what happens to them in their early years, children need to receive timely intervention in order to prevent them from succumbing to the negative influences in their lives. As a marriage and family therapist, I would play an important role in contributing to the positive development of young children in crisis and transforming their lives.

By using various types of innovative therapeutic approaches such as Play Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy and Narrative Therapy, I hope to provide my services in a collaborative way that will empower my clients to adopt an active role in the decision-making process. Instead of imposing my decisions and solutions on my clients, I want to acknowledge, celebrate and embrace their uniqueness and perspectives, thus enabling them to overcome their difficulties and reaching their full potential.

In addition to providing therapy to my clients, I would also continue further research into the aforementioned therapeutic approaches and advocate for their inclusion in many treatment settings such as hospitals and clinics. From my perspective, these innovative approaches, especially narrative therapy, should be used to help as many patients as possible, in lieu of the traditional therapeutic approaches that classify patients into rigid categories based on their diagnoses. While diagnostic criteria are important, they should not be used as the sole basis for shaping treatment programs. Therefore, I intend to begin my career as a marriage and family therapist not in private practice (though it is my ultimate goal), but in large organizational settings such as c

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