Sentence Completion Worksheet for Adults
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HappierTherapy
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The Happier Therapy editorial team is made up of Masters and PhD counselling psychologists. Each worksheet is created by a team member with exposure to and experience in the subject matter. The worksheet then gets reviewed by a more senior editorial member. This is someone with extensive knowledge of the subject matter and highly cited published material.
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What is the theory behind this Sentence Completion Worksheet for Adults?
In the Sentence Completion method, respondents are given incomplete sentences and asked to complete the thought. These sentences represent the personality of the respondents. This Sentence Completion Method is based on Murray’s theory of needs, which is designed to uncover reactions and needs that lie deeper than those generally acknowledged by the individual.
How will the worksheet help?
This worksheet is based on the projective technique, and its purpose is to measure the mental health of normal adults.
By filling out this worksheet individuals will be able to get a better understanding of their needs and their personality type as everyone has a set of universal basic needs, with individual differences in these needs leading to the uniqueness of personality through varying dispositional tendencies for each need, therefore, specific needs are more important to some than to others.
How to use the worksheet?
Individuals should use these worksheets by completing the given sentences within 10 minutes with the first answer that comes to their minds after reading the sentence and then complete it without giving it another thought this way they will be able to know themselves and their needs without any alterations in their thought process. Counselors can also use this worksheet to get to know the patient and his view about different needs.
