This exercise will provide you with an abbreviated experience of how an apperception test works. You will be assessed on one item and the system will automatically evaluate your responses and return results immediately. As you complete this exercise, consider how this experience of evaluation feels to you, and consider how this could feel for clients.

To Prepare:

Review the Thematic Apperception Test example, “Psychology of Words: Projective Tests of Words and Language,” found in the Learning Resources for this week and complete the exercise.
Submit your response. The web site will score your response automatically.
Review your individual results and reflect on how accurate they may be and how they may influence your counselor identity.
Once you complete the test, copy and paste your results into a Word document to save your results for further review.
Assignment:

Write a 2-to-3 page paper where you:

Summarize your results
Reflect on how accurate your individual results were, or were not, for you
Discuss how your results influence your counselor identity (e.g., what are my strengths as a counselor; where I might be challenged; do I have biases and triggers?).