考博英语面试问题

Personal/Professional

1、Tell me about yourself、Use three words to describe you、

2、How did you become interested in psychology? How did you become interested in (specific interest area)?

3、What would you be doing if you were not in psychology？

4、What are your personal strengths?

5、What are your personal weaknesses? What have you done to deal with your shortcomings?

6、What are your goals after graduate school? In 5 years? 10 years?

7、What do you have to contribute to us?

8、Why should we accept you over other equally qualified candidates?

9、What do you do in your spare time? To relax?

10、Tell me about your interest in this area (geography)?

11、Describe the most embarrassing moment in your life、

12、How do you deal with conflict/stress?

13、What would a therapist say the most difficult thing about you?

14、What would a therapist say the best thing about you?

15、What difficulties have you encountered as an international student?

16、What you can bring to the cohort?

17、What do you like to do in your free time?

18、If you can write a book today, what would you write?

19、Tell me a time you are stressed out, and how you deal with it?

20、Tell me something that does not show on your application、

21、If you can have dinner and conversation with an celebraty, who would it want to be and why? What would you ask him?

22、What is the #1 question you would like me to ask you?

Research

1、 What would be your ideal research topic?

2、What are your research interests? How did you get interested in this topic?

3、What is the clinical relevance of your research?

4、How do you describe the relationship of research and practice?

Clinical

1、What population do you want to work with and why?

2、What population have you worked with before?

3、What do you think would be your greatest strength as a therapist?

4、What about clinical work do you enjoy most?

5、What about clinical work do you enjoy least?

6、Talk about a case that you think you did a good job and why, and explain what you learned from it、

7、Talk about a case that you think you did not do a good job and why、

8、What is your theoretical orientation? What do you think of _____ approach?

9、What are the challenges you expect to face as a therapist?

10、What is your experience with individual/couples/family/group/inpatient/etc、treatment? Diversity

1、How do you define cultural competence?

2、With what multicultural or diverse populations have you worked?

3、What are your strengths in working with minorities?

4、What are your weaknesses in working with minorities?

5、 What variables/issues are of concern to you in working with specific populations?

6、 What reading/didactic experiences influence the way you think about diverse populations?

7、How did your own identity influenced your clinical work?

Supervision/Mentoring

What do you expect to get from supervision?

What supervision style do you like best?

What type of comments and feedback work best for you?

Social Justice

1、How do you define social justice?

2、How to achieve social justice?

3、What social justice actions have you worked on in the past?

Recruiting/ Interest & Fit

1、Why are you interested in our program? Why are you applying to this particular program?

2、 How do you see our program fitting with your career goals?

4、Which of your interest areas are (not) addressed by our program?

5、With which faculty member would you most like to work?

6、What are the advantages to you of this program?

7、What worries you about coming to this program?

8、What might you not get at this program that you want?

9、What are your feelings about coming to this state?

10、What do you think of the program now that you've heard more about it?