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This activity is relevant to your ongoing personal and professional learning as it is designed to help you reflect upon your experiences, to help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement as well as your personal preferences, values, biases, and emotional reactions to various events. The intent is to help you evaluate your learning and development throughout your professional career. Ideally, this activity will facilitate the integration of theory and practice into your everyday activities and support you in becoming a reflective practitioner.

Note - This is a personal reflection and should be taken from your personal experiences. Information obtained from the internet or outside sources are not part of this submission.

Objectives
1. To help you reflect upon your experiences
2. To help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement as well as your personal preferences, values, biases, and emotional reactions to various events
3. To help you evaluate your learning and development throughout your professional career
4. To facilitate the integration of theory and practice
5. To help you become a reflective practitioner

What do Journal Entries Look Like?

1. With this assignment, include the approximate date and a brief description of two to four (maximum) situations or learning events. These events may have happened recently, or within the last five years. Add reflective comments about your learning, assumptions, insights, feelings, questions, and when possible, follow up action, resources, or other ‘to do' information

2. This Journal is a personal experience with personal reflections, which will reflect your personality, interests, and unique perspectives on your practice. Creativity and honesty are just as important as being thorough and challenging to yourself in your reflections

3. If you feel comfortable and safe, invite others you trust to read entries and to provide feedback that will help further your professional development

Getting Started

January 14 update; please include the question number only; do not type the question.

Begin your Reflective Journal with some reflective questions to lay the foundation for understanding and analyzing your role; choose any five questions to respond to from the following list. Ensure that you number each question choice, and respond directly underneath, using examples and information that will serve to support your comprehensive responses. It is important that you communicate effectively. Please proofread and edit for correct grammar and sentence structure. Here are some examples of reflective questions:

1. What three things do you believe about your role as they relate to what you value, what your biases might be, and/or your emotional responses with any or all of the following individuals or groups: family members, friends, roommates, people at work, clients, in the community, etc.

2. Is your communication effective with all of the individuals or groups that you listed above in question 1? If so, provide examples to support your responses. If your communication is not effective, why not? Could this be due to barriers, challenges, or obstacles?

3. What metaphors, images, or expressions would you use to describe your role with the above-stated individuals or groups?

4. What is your pattern of behaviour when involved in a conflict situation with your role? Do you face conflict up front, do you take time to process the information, or do you avoid conflict situations at all costs? With what aspects of your 'pattern' of conflict behaviour are you comfortable or uncomfortable with?

5. What worries or concerns you most when you are involved in conflict situations, and/or in situations that brush up against your values? How does this affect/impact how you communicate with the individuals or groups that you included in the above questions?

6. What would you most like to change, modify, or strengthen regarding how you engage in your role with these stated individuals or groups?

7. What three areas of your role, or upcoming career role, do you want to learn more about?

8. If you currently engaged in client-centered situations, or at some point intend to be, answer the following questions: What strengths, knowledge, and skills do you bring to your ability to communicate in client-centered situations? Also, what are your limitations, and the growing edges, of your learning?

Additional Inclusions

You may want to include and reflect upon the following:

1. A critique of readings dealing with ethics in client-centered approaches

2. Reactions to particular ideas or comments raised by others during discussions

3. Online posts (news sources, social media, etc.), about current situations and your analysis on how these situations are/were managed

4. The recounting and analysis of a conflict in your personal or professional life-what did you say, what didn't you say, and why?

5. Any brain-waves (new ideas, comments, "aha" moments) that may have occurred to you

6. Insights about your values, biases, personal preferences, and communication style

Requirements
Note: Turnitin software is used in all sections of this course
• Length: 4 pages minimum and 5 pages maximum (excluding title page and references pages (if applicable). See APA Student Guide for formatting (double-spaced), title page template, and references page information
• APA Format

Attachment:- Helping relationships.rar