practice session reflection
City University of Hong Kong
Department of Applied Social Studies
BSSSW (Social Work)
SS2273 Counseling Skills Lab
Tutor: Dr. Kathy Leung
Reflection Journal of the Visit to the Chi Lin Elderly Home
SID: Chan Man San 53025616
Reflection Journal of the Visit to the Chi Lin Elderly Home
In fact, this is my first time to visit to the elderly home. Before this visit, I think that will be a boring experience for me. As I don’t have any experience which visit to the elderly home, I prepared all night to review the counseling course pack and try to remember the skills I have learnt.
In that day, the elderly I have met is almost eighty years old. When we saw each other, there was a bit embarrassing. I introduced me once and I asked some of her personal information casually. After that, I change my sit as to sit behind her to reduce the distance between us. Then I asked her what is she doing before this activity start and asked her that she have lunch already or not. And the further question is that whether the facilities and environment in there is good for her or not. Actually, the question I ask is used for me to make the atmosphere between us become more comfortable but not full of tension. Fortunately, after these questions, she changed from a quiet elderly to be a more talkative elderly and I feel great as I am glad that the counseling skills I have learned can be used.
However, when the topics we talked together become deeper and deeper, I don’t know why I cannot use the counseling skills anymore. Actually, I recognize that I cannot use the skills unconsciously. I only can use those skills meticulously. She talked about her own family and her background in the past. When she was young, she was very poor. She does not have any chance to study and thus she does not have any educational level and she even does not know words. She has a husband but her husband dead after her three sons had born. After she spoke out
Department of Applied Social Studies
BSSSW (Social Work)
SS2273 Counseling Skills Lab
Tutor: Dr. Kathy Leung
Reflection Journal of the Visit to the Chi Lin Elderly Home
SID: Chan Man San 53025616
Reflection Journal of the Visit to the Chi Lin Elderly Home
In fact, this is my first time to visit to the elderly home. Before this visit, I think that will be a boring experience for me. As I don’t have any experience which visit to the elderly home, I prepared all night to review the counseling course pack and try to remember the skills I have learnt.
In that day, the elderly I have met is almost eighty years old. When we saw each other, there was a bit embarrassing. I introduced me once and I asked some of her personal information casually. After that, I change my sit as to sit behind her to reduce the distance between us. Then I asked her what is she doing before this activity start and asked her that she have lunch already or not. And the further question is that whether the facilities and environment in there is good for her or not. Actually, the question I ask is used for me to make the atmosphere between us become more comfortable but not full of tension. Fortunately, after these questions, she changed from a quiet elderly to be a more talkative elderly and I feel great as I am glad that the counseling skills I have learned can be used.
However, when the topics we talked together become deeper and deeper, I don’t know why I cannot use the counseling skills anymore. Actually, I recognize that I cannot use the skills unconsciously. I only can use those skills meticulously. She talked about her own family and her background in the past. When she was young, she was very poor. She does not have any chance to study and thus she does not have any educational level and she even does not know words. She has a husband but her husband dead after her three sons had born. After she spoke out