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What is reflective practice in counseling?
Reflexive practice in counselling and psychotherapy is a proactive and dynamic process whereby the counsellor uses their thoughts, feelings and reflections on the therapeutic work as a basis for action.
What are the 5 principles of reflective practice?
- considering what we did.
- considering why we did it like that.
- considering whether it was successful.
- considering whether it could have been done better.
- planning for any changes to our future practice.
Why is reflecting important in therapy?
Reflecting feelings is often used in counseling to establish rapport and build a relationship with a client. It is also used to make a client feel understood, encourage them to express themselves and open up more, and help them be aware of their own emotions and feelings.
What are the 4 steps to reflective practice?
- Description of the experience.
- Feelings and thoughts about the experience.
- Evaluation of the experience, both good and bad.
- Analysis to make sense of the situation.
- Conclusion about what you learned and what you could have done differently.
What is the concept of reflective practice?
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one’s actions so as to engage in a process of continuous learning.
What is reflective practice examples?
Reflective practice involves actively analyzing your experiences and actions, in order to help yourself improve and develop. For example, an athlete can engage in reflective practice by thinking about mistakes that they made during a training session, and figuring out ways to avoid making those mistakes in the future.
What are the two types of reflective practice?
Two main types of reflection are often referred to – reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action. The most obvious difference is in terms of when they happen. This is the reflection that takes place whilst you are involved in the situation, often a patient interaction.
What are the three types of reflective practice?
Based on some of the earlier research on reflective thinking (e.g. Killion and Todnem, 1991; Schön 1987), Farrell (2012) offers three distinct styles of reflective practice: reflection-in-action, reflection-on-action, and reflection-for-action.
What is the key feature of reflective practice?
Reflective thinking requires you to recognise, understand and to define the valuable knowledge and experience you bring to each new situation, to make the connections based on your prior learning and experience (your ‘insight’), and bring these to bear in the context of new events.