Being raised with certain values and beliefs allows everyone to have different strengths and weaknesses. Based on comfort levels of individual counselors, certain skills to come easier to some as opposed to others. Reflection of content and reflection of feelings are two skills that come easiest to me. When practicing these skills, and learning about them during the semester, I came to realize that I use them to some extent daily. Being a kindergarten teacher I found these to be two skills that go hand in hand with my current career. Every day I use these skills like a counselor would to better understand my students and their thoughts and feelings. Understanding my students correctly, allows us to build a stronger relationship throughout the school year.
Reflection of content allows me to restate what I previously heard. It allows me to make sure that I have the correct understanding and often get more clarity into the story. “Clients experience being listened to, and may clarify their thinking as they explain their situations to their practitioners.” (Chang, Scott, & Decker, 2013, p. 140). As a teacher, my students are like my clients. I often must interpret what my students are saying whether it be a story or a current situation. Just like a
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Identifying a client 's feelings is important while restating a previous statement or phrase. Feelings can be stated while the client is telling you a story. Feelings can also be assumed by a person 's body language or tone of voice. Reflection of feeling is important for identifying the feelings that the client has and making sure they are labeling their feelings correctly. As a teacher, it is important for me to use reflection of feeling because at this age my students are just learning about feelings and how to correctly express them. I often find them confusing feelings and therefore using reflection helps me understand them
Although, some people are lucky enough to have a significant amount of patience, you can always learn how to improve your skills. This can be pursued by experiencing counseling yourself, attending a higher educational program, taking work trainings very seriously, and even using your own personal dilemmas as a way to become a more fulfilled and knowledgeable individual. According to Lynne Shallcross, an author for Counseling Today, “A great counselor is a person who is totally committed to the clients or students they are serving. They realize that to become the best tool they must be engaged in continued growth professionally and personally” I believe that by using these approaches, you can become a very helpful and successful
It is my desire to have involvement with students, parents, education professionals, community, and community agencies. As I move forward with learning the role and responsibilities of the professional school counselor, I am reminded of a quote by Carol Allen Simmons, “I want to lend a helping to show someone the way. I want my life to be an example as I go, cause I never pass this way again.” I will lead, learn and grow in the knowledge of this profession because I only have a short time to impact students with direction and care. As I advance on how to educate the whole student; I am attentive, motivated, and conscious of the huge responsible to education all.
...ning a therapeutic relationship. Paraphrasing includes repeating the content that has been expressed in a different way, this method can provide the client of feeling important and recognized. Reflection of feelings/content involves identifying the feelings and/or content in what has been said (highlighting the key aspects of the story), again this method encourages for the patients to be validated and heard.
Counseling psychology is one of the most interesting career choices in the field of psychology. However, this career fits my personality in several aspects. A person in counseling psychology will generally use personality tests, interviews, case histories, and observation methods to evaluate a patients' problems, needs, and goals. Counseling psychologists will evaluate data and, create an action plan or treatment plan to counsel the patient with. The goal in this career is to help each patient work toward developing and adjusting social, educational, personal, and vocational skills. I’ve always had an interest in listening to people. Throughout my adult years, people of
The intention of this written essay is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on reflection and the issues surrounding reflective practice. It is based on nursing skills that I used during my practice placement, most importantly reflecting on the professional value of privacy and dignity.
According to Introduction to Counseling Voices from the Field. They are seven generic skills. The seven generic skill are Diagnostic, Skills, Exploration Skills, Relationship Skills, Conceptualization Skills Action Skills, Group process, Evaluation skills. When a person is talking about Diagnostics skills, according to (Jeffrey A. Kottler & David S. Shepard, 2014) “this is when the counselor is trying to decipher out what is going on with the client's (p.59). An example of this would be when a client says that they are experiencing loneliness. The counselor would ask, that very broad question, but why do you feel that way. The next one is Exploration skills. This skill is when the counselor is trying to see what exactly is going through
I have seen that The Masters of School Counseling degree provides students with a chance to learn more about their inner selves and abilities. Not only will this program prepare me for life beyond the classroom, but it will also provide me with the opportunity to offer the needed support to the students with whom I will be working. When students develop a positive and trustworthy relationship with a School Counselor, there is no limit to the things that they can accomplish. School systems shouldn’t just teach content knowledge, they should also offer real world experience. Sharing simple things about our lives can be used as a tool when teaching. I feel that students can overcome obstacles they have experienced in their lives and begin to find many successes that encourage them to be the best that they can be. One of the biggest ways I think children find success is when their curiosity creates creativity “getting the wheels turning”. During my undergraduate program at Piedmont College, I observed in many classes in which it was clear the students had a variety of abilities and skills. While observing techniques that the teachers utilized I learned that there is a great deal of strategy involved in teaching, mentoring and guiding
In conclusion, I have reflected upon the Competencies in Professional Counseling and Related Human Services handout and offered a detailed exploration of my strengths and weaknesses. Moreover, I offered an argument in support of my proposed method for attenuating my strength and improving my weaknesses. This culminated in a plan for continuous self-improvement, in all areas, upon completing my regiment of study at
I cannot recall a more rewarding experience than helping facilitate a child’s education while enabling parent participation alike. These experiences have drawn me to my current position as an Educational Assistant where I am constantly interacting and establishing relationships with students, learning about their goals and aspirations. It is that same desire to empower our future students that has steered me towards a career as a school counselor. By enrolling in the Masters in counseling program, I aspire to develop methods and experience to become an effective, experienced, and adaptable school counselor that promotes self-awareness, allowing students to realize their full potential and impetus them towards a promising future. I want to learn skills that facilitate personal and career development, ensuring that our students grow accomplishing their goals and ambitions.
becoming a counselor, you must allow the Holy Spirit to lead you in all that you do and that should be the number one thing that is in your heart
During my initial self-evaluation and assessment of me as a perspective counselor, self- awareness was an essential aspect of becoming an effective counselor. I am aware of certain things that can prevent me from becoming a competent counselor such as being unaware of my strengths and weaknesses. As a current community support worker, I have already had the opportunity to work with individuals who require different levels of support. Providing assistance to the specific population has given me the chance to utilize my communication skills. My work experience has also allowed me to be more self-aware, and open minded. After taking the techniques of counseling class I am more than confident that I have grown professionally since the beginning
Moreover, proper modifications must be made to accommodate to their needs (Drummond, Sheperis & Jones, 2015). Reflection As a future counselor learning and recognizing what makes a counselor efficient is imperative.
The term reflection means the examination of personal thoughts and actions. For nurses this means focusing on how they interact with their colleagues and with the environment to obtain a clearer picture of their own behaviour. This means it is a process in which a nurse can better understand themselves in order to be able to build on existing strengths and take appropriate future action (Somerville, 2004). Reflection is a way to bring your own intuition along with empirical knowledge together. Reflective practice in nursing is guided by models of reflection. Reflective practice model serves as a framework within which nursing or other management professions can work. Reflective practice model is also a structural framework or learning model that serves the purposes of a profession and is particularly applicable to health related professions. Reflective practice enables practitioners to learn to value themselves as significant people with values and feelings that are important factors in giving care. Whilst reflective practice allows the nurse to recognise the value of their experiences, they may also need support to work through a difficult situation. This is where reflection aids nurses in dealing with these challenging experiences (Johns, 1995). Reflection on experience offers nurses the opportunity to reflect on caring in practice in ways that its nature can be understood, where the skills necessary for effective caring can be developed and most significantly, where the values of caring for people can be highlighted, both to the individual nurse and the world in general (Johns 1996)
Reflection is a dynamic procedure whereby the expert can pick up a comprehension of how authentic, social, cultural and individual experiences have contributed to expert information and practice. I believe that reflective practice is a dynamic planned procedure of basically looking at practice where an individual is tested and empowered to embrace the procedure of self-inquiry to engage the specialist to acknowledge desirable and compelling practice within a reflexive winding of individual change.
Everyone has a different view on how they learn and learning itself. First starting in EXP 105, my understanding of learning was new knowledge and becoming wiser. Taking EXP 105 has truly increased my knowledge of what learning is and the process of it. The most important thing I have learned about learning is that you observe the world around you, make sure it is understandable, and figure out the right way to respond. Learning also provides critical thinking skills. Everyone have different ways of learning and those ways are based on four different learning patterns. The four different types of learning patterns are Sequence, Precision, Technical Reasoning, and Confluence. Learning patterns are very helpful when it comes to everyday life, school work, and your job. Knowing your learning patterns and which ones you should use make