Date Filed: 10-19-2020

Psychology Department: Goals Statement Form

Name: Madison Welsted

Advisor: Karen Crisp

Concentration (circle one): Psychology (General) Human Resource Management School

Mind/Body th Counseling Forensic

Heal
Want to graduate in (circle one): May August December

What year? 2023

Want to do a(n) (circle one): Internship Independent Study Research Apprenticeship

What term? (circle one): (I think) Spring Summer Fall

What year? 2023

GPA goal over total time at MU: 3.6-4.0

GPA goal for this term: 3.9

Preferred psychology (area(s): Clinical Counseling Developmental

(circle all that apply)
School Forensic Experimental

Social Sport Industrial-Organizational

Other:
(please identify)

Why interested? I want to work through everyday problems and issues such as anxiety disorder and depression with people. I
have a passion for helping people and am interested in making a career out of it, like the counselor that helped me.

Preferred work site after Health Care Private Practice Business

graduation (circle one):
Federal Agency State Agency Elementary/Secondary School

University Drug/Alcohol Law Enforcement

Treatment Facility

Other: Private practice is my end goal, but I don’t have a preference for work sites
right after graduation.
(please identify)
Why? I want to build my own client base, establish my own name, and oversee every client and track their progress in my place
of work. I am also interested in the salary of having a private practice in the future.

Degree needed to qualify for Bachelors Masters Ph.D./Psy.D. Other: (M.S.W.)

preferred job:

Experiences needed to qualify

for preferred job: 3,000 hours
of supervised experience, 100
practicum hours, 600 internship
hours, evaluating and assessing
mental health disorders,
completing required paperwork,
communicating with individuals
with histories of mental health
issues, designing treatment
plans, tracking progress of client
recovery, writing reports
Experience goal for this term: Research and choose 3 different internship opportunities that I’m interested in by the end of the
semester.

Knowledge or skills needed to

qualify for referred job:
Interview skills, interpersonal
communication, diagnostic
ability, time management,
problem-solving skills

Knowledge or skill goal for this

term: Design and practice two
interviews with family members in
which I am the interviewer by the
end of the semester. The first
time, I will note aspects of
interview skills that I can improve
on. Between the interviews, I will
research how to improve one of
those weaknesses. The second
time, I will assess my new
comfortability (Very
uncomfortable – Very
comfortable) with that weakness.