Reference no: EM133529867
Social And Emotional Wellbeing
Assessment - Reflective Report
Learning Outcome 1: Explore and reflect on the means of assessing social, emotional and psychological wellbeing within specific population groups.
Learning Outcome 2: Describe and apply key models in health psychology specifically relevant to health behaviour.
Context:
This assessment aims to deepen your knowledge, understanding and learning from recording mood, activity levels and other health promoting activities in a lifestyle journal for seven days. How did tracking these aspects of your lifestyle help you to identify areas that may need more attention? How did it help you to highlight aspects of your lifestyle that are working well? This reflection will help you develop critical skills into why certain activities are personally preferred over others in a daily routine, as well as to understand how this type of recording activity may benefit others to increase their awareness of their daily habits.
Instruction: Part A requires you to maintain a lifestyle tracker for seven days. You may use the following: ‘Template for Recording Activities'.
Complete the template as fully as possible and refer to modules one and two for further information. An entry example is provided below for yourconsideration.
The activities you will track include those that promote health and wellbeing. Please refer to the mnemonic SEEDS by John Arden (2015) for activities that contribute to a healthy lifestyle: social connection, exercise, education, diet and sleep (for a summary of SEEDS visit Good therapy.
Upon completion of your 7 day lifestyle journal, you are required to move on to Part B of this assessment where you will reflect on your experience as a whole.
Instruction:
Part B requires you to critically reflect on the information you recorded in Part A - lifestyle journal. (Reflect on your week as a whole).
Describe, analyse and evaluate the use of each of the mnemonic SEEDS coined by John Arden (2015): social connection, exercise, education, diet and sleep as they applied to you in this journal.
Some points you may consider:
• Compare your findings or trends in each of the mnemonic SEEDS, to the recommended guidelines or suggestions.
• What days flowed better than others and what was happening on those specific days,
i.e. at work or home.
• The social, emotional and psychological barriers and enablers to lifestyle choices and their cumulative effect. For example, a poor night's sleep may have led to a poor food choice and feeling too tired to attend an exercise class that you had planned.
• How could deepening your understanding of your own barriers and enablers benefit those around you in a personal or professional context?
• How could tracking and recording your daily activities help identify what is and isn't working to keep a healthy lifestyle? Pay particular attention to the underlying causes of life draining activities.
• Have you identified behaviours that you may want to change or improve? Why would you like to change or improve them?
APA format
In Part A (journal) you will complete only stage 1 - Describing what happened.
In Part B (reflection) you will complete stages 2 and 3 - Analysing, explaining and evaluating what happened and what you learnt. Reflective writing is evidence of reflective thinking. Inan academic context, reflective thinking usually involves:
1. Looking back at something (often an event, idea or object).
2. Analysing the event or idea (thinking critically and from different perspectives, as well as explaining a learning experience in relation to the academic literature).
3. Evaluating carefully what the event or idea means for you and your ongoing progress as a learner and/or practising professional. Reflective writing is thus morepersonal than other types of academic writing.