MA Clinical Psychology Personal Statement Scholarship

Saudi Student with Scholarship to Earn the MA Degree in Psychology

I am on a fully paid scholarship program from my government, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, to study broad, Psychology on the graduate leved. I want to earn my master's degree in clinical psychology so that I can then return to  my country and begin assuming advancing levels of responsibility in my field. First, I will work for a hospital for at least a couple of years to gain invaluable experience working with a broad variety of mental health issues and diverese populations.

My long term goal is to someday open my own psychiatric clinic and to treat everyone who seeks out my services, as much as possible, irrespective of their ability to pay. I thrive on my service to others and feel very strongly that mental health services should be made available to all those who need those services even if they are poor and cannot pay the fee. I believe that after attaining a world class education in my field from a highly distinguished program such as yours, that I will indeed be successful in my endeavors because I am a very hard worker, extremely highly motivated, and I want very much to serve my Saudi people.

For me, becoming successful is all about helping people, not generating profits. My central goal for my professional future is to help people to become better human beings and more productive members of society, one individual at a time. In this way, I also seek to contribute to the well being and ongoing development of my society, helping it to overcome its problems and issues and contributing to the realization of a higher quality of life for everyone. I am looking forward to lifetime learnng about human behavior, ways of thinking and reacting to one another. Your program will provide me with the appropriate academic background and methodology, inspiring and enabling the deepening of my understanding of theoretical frameworks in preparation for success in my field.

My greatest dream would be to someday open or at least administer a state-of-the art  psychiatric clinic for women, serving the special or unique needs of Saudi women in particular. As a woman, I am concerned with the ways that Saudi women suffer in silence, oppressed by the men of my country generally speaking, and they often find it difficult to find someone to talk to about their psychological pain. I would like to dedicate my professional life to working to changing this, to recognize and respond to the way in which the male dominated character of Saudi society often results in hardship for many women and causes them to undergo profound psychological suffering.

I dream of someday giving public lectures all over my country on the subject of women’s mental health, so that all of us together might have the opportunity to brainstorm concerning strategies to build appreciation for women, especially professionally, through greater participation in society. I would like to capitalize on the way that my nation is often seen as a leader of the Muslim world by encouraging discussions that go beyond our borders and throughout the Muslim world, discussions that would place greater importance on the psychological needs of women in the Muslim world and the challenges that exist for our societies to find specific ways to identify and respond to the psychological challenges of women, especially those that are unique to the social and religious structures of our societies.

MA Clinical Psychology Personal Statement Scholarship