The Best Intentions

The journey to becoming a counselor starts far before applying to graduate school. It begins even before the thought is realized. The development of one’s personality plants seeds that lead to many paths for growth. Stepping back to evaluate your own personality can allow for greater understanding that will aide you to fully discovering the path to take. When looking back at the development of my personality, I have to examine all of the factors that contributed to shaping me into me. My personality

Communication Studies Research Paper When people communicate with others, their messages are meant to convey a certain message. However, messages can sometimes carry unintended, negative remarks towards a person’s gender, ethnicity, and beliefs. These inadvertent messages are more commonly known as microaggressions. People react to these microaggressions very differently; some take offense to them, while others nonchalantly let them pass by. To minimize the occurrence of microaggressions, it is

Part Five: Current Practice- Parent Conferences Introduction When it comes to educating students, parents and teachers need to work in tandem towards a common goal. Parent conferences are one of the best ways to assure both parties are on the same page. In this section, I have compiled an array of strategies that I have found to be beneficial, when conferencing with parents. Unfortunately, not all conferences will go smoothly. In the instance that challenges may arise, I have included an example

Soft Skills enhance professional life It might be our hard skills that get us the interview, but it’s the soft skills that bring us success in our career. Soft skills are our personal capabilities that determine how well we work with others, job performance, communication and all of the other things that make us different from every other expert in our field. While technical expertise is very important, soft skills are much harder to learn. These can be a deciding factor in getting and keeping

siblings even his mother, just duo to her ugly appearance. Her companions all caught up with her and they always laughed at her. Worse more, even her mother beat her for no reason. In this situation, however, the duck was tough enough. She just tried her best to fly so that she could get rid of the discrimination by her companions or maltreat from her mother. She did not lose the faith for life even though she was so anguished, having an optimistic attitude towards life and making efforts

that “strategies that attempt to engage young people in a dialogue about their individual circumstances, including drug use, may be more effective than attempts to coerce them into treatment.” They go on to explain that “practioners with the best intentions intervene and inadvertently cause more harm for the clients than if they had not acted at all.” (Fairbairn and Murray 18) Little is available in terms of a nationwide change. In recent years, a call to action has been released with a keen eye

Imagine being one of the best. Standing on a podium holding a trophy, yet coming home to parents who are disappointed because you stood 3rd place on that podium. This is how Waverley feels in the short story “Rules of the Game” by Amy Tan. Waverly lives with her mother, father, and two older brothers in an apartment in Chinatown, San Francisco. Waverly loves to run around in the bustling streets of her neighborhood smelling red beans and pastries being cooked nearby. One Christmas, the Jong family

recall growing up as a kid, we didn’t have the fancy things like kids do today. We were able to get by with what we had. My mother worked hard to give us the very best possible. Numerous parents today don’t let their children try, fail, be resilient, problem solve, or even have achievements of their own. All parents want the best intentions for their children, but if we keep hovering over them, overprotecting and enable them they will not have the true sense of self, know who they are, or realized

better academically than when Cal was helping him. Overall, what Cal did made Donny feel like he could do whatever he wanted, and he did not necessarily think Donny running away was a bad thing. Overall, the story shows that people may have the best intentions to help, but sometimes that is not the help that should be given, and may not be

Business,” Jeffery Seglin explains that managers in today’s business world must not only deal with situations pertaining to the workplace, but also make more complicated decisions regarding their employees’ personal lives. Seglin explains that the best managers treat those below them on the corporate ladder not as subordinates, but as equals. He cites a Gallop Organization study which revealed that employees who feel cared about, that their opinion matters, and that their companies are family-friendly