Critical Analysis Of The Reflections On My Journey Till Mid Semester

Reflective practice will make us more self aware, this will raise our own awareness of others and increase

The successful completion of the doctoral program requires one to make significant sacrifices and accommodations. Majority of the doctoral students are usually motivated and eager to complete their program as soon as possible. However, many students often enroll for doctoral programs without a complete understanding of the heavy demands of such a program. The doctoral program is unique and bears little resemblance to many previous degree courses and so without the necessary accommodations one can find completing it an uphill task. Each student brings to the program his/her own set of academic strengths and weaknesses (Wisdom, & Leavitt, 2015). The attitude and abilities of each and every doctoral student is unique and so is their management of the program. Therefore, the most important ingredient to doctoral success is the capability to leverage such inherent strengths and find effective ways

Specifically, I have learned that: (1) With a little effort, it is usually possible to identify some of the barriers to effective interpersonal interactions; (2) There are appropriate and inappropriate levels of self-disclosure in relationships; (3) It is important and often quite helpful to understand the process by which our self-concept is developed and maintained; (4) It is equally important to recognize how our self-concept relates to both defensive messages and supportive messages (and behaviors) because they often corresponding to positive and negative communication climates in our relationships; (5) Our subjective perceptions, emotions, and nonverbal styles of expression affect interpersonal relationships; and (6) The words we use have the power to create and

The retreat was truly a time of self-reflection. I reflected upon my thoughts, actions, beliefs, and everything else in between. For me, the retreat was life-changing. I feel that in that short amount of time, I did so much to clean my mind, and prepare myself to engage myself in another part of my life. Before the retreat, I was arrogant and self-centered; to the

• Critically reflecting with my mentors to gain insight and guidance into my practice and gain constructive feedback

Looking at Reflective Practice as a stand-alone discipline for self and system improvement was an enlightening process. I have worked with teams to critical dissect a situation, to develop a plan for the next time an incident occurs, to understand a student’s behavior and in efforts to build stronger teams. I have come home from a social situation and run the scenario through my mind trying to figure out what went well and what did not. However, to purposefully and systematically unpack and repack an experience with the goal of improving one’s practice is far more powerful then exercises I have done in the past.

This piece of reflection will focus on my experiences whilst on practice placement; I will be using the (Gibbs 1988, cited in Jasper 2003, p.77) model of reflection. Gibbs cycle is set out in order of categories made up of different headings. (See appendix 1). By using this cycle it allows me to reflect in structured and effective way. The subject of this final piece of reflection will cover the development and utilisation of interpersonal skills in order to establish and maintain therapeutic relationships.

Reflective practice is a tool used to evaluate ones opinion, thoughts and emotions. It “forms the basis of deep learning from past experiences” (Tsingo, 2014). It builds on critical thinking and problem solving. How I may choose use this in my future career as a radiation therapist is a means for debriefing, continued learning and managing my emotions. Ensuring I am mindful of myself. I hope to improve my understanding and obtain new perspectives by doing so. In the past, I have kept reflective journal entries as a mandatory assessment. I have discovered that it extended my understanding of new topics and ideas. I’ve noted reflective tools are a great way to addresses strengths and weaknesses. In short, it encourages active learning and proactivity by analysing a situation.

Large portions of this book still focus on reflection and while reading how to reflect is simple, I am sure that physically reflecting is harder than I may think. Reflecting can be practiced in my everyday life by journaling and practicing mindfulness. These two practices are good starting points for becoming a more efficient reflector through time. In contrast, reflecting with clients seems much more difficult to grasp as I am concerned with getting so caught up in processing what I should say next that I miss what they said. These two chapters talk about the concerns of reflecting as well as, the therapeutic relationship and the foundation, and new skills such as paraphrasing.

For the last six weeks in both mental and acute setting, I have reflected on events that I had met in each week. Now, I am going to identify essential personal learning outcomes from those events and will include personal awareness of strengths and weaknesses. Among the different models of reflection, I will use the Gibbs model of reflection which entails six stages such as description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion, action plan.

This reflection will discuss personal diffidence and how it has influenced my academic studies, including my practice within placement settings. Gibbs reflective cycle (Gibbs, 1998) has been utilised as it illustrates a clear structure for the process of reflection. To conclude this reflection will draw together the themes which have emerged and highlight a clear action for future learning that will be used in order to enhance my future practice.

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This class has taught me a lot in such a short time, and also made me realize a lot about myself when it comes to writing. I finally see the importance of writing and why writing will always be important. Writing will be used in just about every career, especially in nursing. Through this class, I realized my strengths and weaknesses making my future in writing papers easier since I now know what to and not to do. Better to realize the strengths and weaknesses in my freshman year then my senior year. I have found that having a voice is important in who the author is as a person and how it characterizes that person. I see that setting the tone of the paper basically sets the whole paper and what it will be about aside from the thesis stating

My educational experience is one amazing thing I would never forget. My parents gave me an experience of a lifetime that I would never let go and continue to expand. It was a gift of a great education I could have tossed away but instead I took advantage of it and it expanded my intellect and made me more independent. As a young girl my parents always told me, they wanted a great educational experience for me. They said no matter what it took to get me into good schools, to have a great education they will do it. My parents worked very hard to give me the opportunity to be in private school my whole life since pre-school. They always told me to work hard, be bright and be bold. The educational level I had being in private school my whole life was amazing. What was amazing about my education level is that I was able to take all college prep. classes, I took an AP Spanish class, my teachers were always on top of us to hand in work in time, essays in my English class were based on a college level writing. It was amazing because my school expanded my mind more on a college based level.

There is a significant difference between my perception of communication at the beginning of this course compared to now. Initially, I was aware communication was an important skill people needed to have, but I wasn’t fully aware of the depth of communication. I never realized there were such a variety of behaviors and characteristics that impacted the ability for people to communicate effectively. Once I started completing the self-assessments my perspective was broaden and I gained helpful insight into my own communication strengths and weaknesses. With each self-assessment I truly felt I was getting to know myself better.