Ahhhhhhhhhh #2

Alright, so studying for quals sucks! It's quite time consuming, and like I always do before exams, I will run out of time before I feel like I'm ready. I go back and forth between thinking that I know enough and freaking out that I don't know anything - it's very much a mental disorder in and of itself. Anyway, in the past two days, I've reviewed Freud's classic psychoanalysis, Adler's individual psychology, Rogers' client-centered approach, behavioral counseling, Beck's cognitive counseling, Ellis' rational emotive behavior therapy, and existential therapy. I still have a bit more to do on existentialism and then I will finish up with Wilber's integral psychology.

Here's a question that I hope they ask me for the theories portion of the exam: Identify your guiding theory of counseling and how you came to resonate with the theory, explain its philosophical underpinnings, how healthy and unhealthy functioning are conceptualized, how personality change occurs including stages (if any) that occur in counseling, the role of the client and counselor, and how the theory incorporates diversity and spirituality issues. Now that would be a good question, and I think I have a pretty decent answer.

Just three more days of studying and then it'll be here...I can't know everything, right?

Thanks for reading.