Principles of personal development in a adult social care setting
Ai
- a) Reflective practice is a way of learning from your experiences in a way that can inform you and then improve your practice. it will help you to look at your practice with a open mind identifying areas of improvement. this is a continues process.
B) Reflective practice is important because it improves practice, it helps identify behaviour/ ways of working that as positive and negative impact on others, it helps develop better knowledge and skills it also gives you a insight into different practice and better self awareness.
C)Reflective practice improves the quality of the service provided because it helps people to learn from mistakes and feedback, it looks at training and development needs, you can monitor changes and improvements put into place, it monitors changes and improvements put into place and ensures everyone is working to the same standard.
D) Standards can be used to help a social care worker reflect on their practice by (national min standards) undertaking regular supervisions- one to one appraisals, (cqc) essential standards of quality and saftey which includes inspections and feedback, (regulations) coshh, riddor, manual handling etc.
Aii
-a) It is important for a social worker to seek feedback on performance because it will improve self awareness, its a insight to your own performance, you get different views, it tells you what improvements are needed and how to achieve them, it will also improve the service you are providing.
B) Some ways that people may react to constructive feedback can be upset, de-motivated, feels it helps or a waste of time, they get a better understanding they may also feel that they are determined to do better.
C) It is important for a social worker to use the feedbackto improve their practice because if it is ignored bad practice will continue, the service user will feel ignored and no longer valid, it relates to practice, it will