Assessment 1 Explanation for Improve counselling Skills
Improve Counselling Skills:
Assignment 1 Reflective Practice Task
Due Date:
Word Count: 1500 words (guide only)
For this assignment you need to keep a journal for the first few weeks of the module. The aim of the journal is to reflect on various aspects of professional practice, study challenges, or any other feature of counselling work or study. You do not hand in the journal.
Using the information gathered during this process you will write the practice task reflecting on your professional practice that includes three professional practice goals.
It is recommended that you make a brief entry in your journal everyday in which you record events, situations, information and your insights related to counselling. Ensure that identities are protected and the focus is ultimately on you and not on others.
Journal Writing Guidelines:
Each daily entry should cover:
the events that occurred on that day which relate, whether directly or indirectly, to your professional practice and study of counselling how you felt about these events what skills you observed that you demonstrated what skills do you think require further attention and growth the element of professional practice or study that you most struggled with on that day the element of professional practice or study that you felt most comfortable with on that day
Your Reflective Practice Task requires you to examine the following aspects of your professional development:
1. Overview of 3 events from your journal
2. Your current knowledge base (this does not necessarily have to be in the counselling field. Most of you will be tapping into volunteer experience, work experience, lived experience – like relationship / parenting, or prior study experience in which your skills are transferrable to counselling).
3. Your breadth of experience to date and what you have learned from these experiences
4. Your professional practice strengths and weaknesses
5. Your professional aspirations
6. You will
Assignment 1 Reflective Practice Task
Due Date:
Word Count: 1500 words (guide only)
For this assignment you need to keep a journal for the first few weeks of the module. The aim of the journal is to reflect on various aspects of professional practice, study challenges, or any other feature of counselling work or study. You do not hand in the journal.
Using the information gathered during this process you will write the practice task reflecting on your professional practice that includes three professional practice goals.
It is recommended that you make a brief entry in your journal everyday in which you record events, situations, information and your insights related to counselling. Ensure that identities are protected and the focus is ultimately on you and not on others.
Journal Writing Guidelines:
Each daily entry should cover:
the events that occurred on that day which relate, whether directly or indirectly, to your professional practice and study of counselling how you felt about these events what skills you observed that you demonstrated what skills do you think require further attention and growth the element of professional practice or study that you most struggled with on that day the element of professional practice or study that you felt most comfortable with on that day
Your Reflective Practice Task requires you to examine the following aspects of your professional development:
1. Overview of 3 events from your journal
2. Your current knowledge base (this does not necessarily have to be in the counselling field. Most of you will be tapping into volunteer experience, work experience, lived experience – like relationship / parenting, or prior study experience in which your skills are transferrable to counselling).
3. Your breadth of experience to date and what you have learned from these experiences
4. Your professional practice strengths and weaknesses
5. Your professional aspirations
6. You will