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Why is reflection important in Counselling?
Reflective practice allows the Counsellor to do their job to the highest standards. It ensures that they don’t waste time on methods that don’t work and that they repeat methods that do. Another benefit is that the Counsellor is able to self-assess their working methods and apply improvements where necessary. Reflection helped participants manage personal feelings, such as anxiety and inadequacy, and their impact on others. Reflective practice enabled participants to better understand themselves as well as their impact on the people around them. Reflection Accelerates Your Personal Development Reflective thinking also makes your knowledge more visible and helps you become more aware of your assumptions, values and views of the world that subconsciously influence your actions. Such increased self-awareness is an key prerequisite for changing your behaviour. In reflection, the listener tries to clarify and restate what the other person is saying. 1) It can increase the listener’s understanding of the other person. 2) It can help the other to clarify their thoughts.
What is an example of reflection in Counselling?
For example, the counsellor may have noticed tears or a change in tone of voice. Examples of reflection of feeling are ‘You’re feeling sad’ or ‘You feel sad’ or ‘You’re sad’. Sometimes, reflection of content and feelings are combined, as in the statement: ‘You’re sad because you’ve lost your best friend. ‘ Self-reflection also allows counsellors to see things from another point of view. This means that when you take a step back from a specific experience or situation, you can see: what was a successful interaction, for example the empathy you used was successful in validating the client’s emotions. Self-reflection is defined as a mental process you can use to grow your understanding of who you are, what your values are, and why you think, feel, and act the way you do. Reflection allows us to resolve uncertainty. It allows us to empower ourselves as individual people. When you reflect on something, I think you get a sense of purpose. You feel like what you have done is worth doing, because you’ve taken more from it than the simple knowledge. The people who scored high on self-reflection were more stressed, depressed and anxious, less satisfied with their jobs and relationships, more self-absorbed, and they felt less in control of their lives. What’s more, these negative consequences seemed to increase the more they reflected.
What are the principles of reflective practice in Counselling?
In counselling, the aim of reflective practice is personal discovery of one’s own experiential knowledge, which is knowledge gained from reflection-on-action moving an individual to reflection-in-action that requires practice to be able to modify, test, and re-modify in a reflective model in situ (Wong-Wylie, 2006). Being reflective and self-aware means understanding yourself: your motivations, values, skills and strengths. It’s also about identifying and recognising areas you need to develop and how you can improve. Having this ability means you can: critically assess your own knowledge, values, qualities, skills and behaviours. Self-reflection enables you to move from just experiencing, into understanding. Self-reflection: Encourages a level of self-awareness and consciousness about practice. Enables you to identify areas for improvement and also areas where you are strong. Self-reflection is a conscious decision. It involves looking inwards to find out who you are, what you value, and how you react in various situations. Self-awareness centres specifically on our ability to identify and manage our emotions. Ultimately, we develop our awareness through reflective thinking. A Self-Reflection Definition. Simply put, self-reflection (also known as “personal reflection”) is taking the time to think about, meditate on, evaluate, and give serious thought to your behaviors, thoughts, attitudes, motivations, and desires.
Why is self reflection so important?
Reflecting helps you to develop your skills and review their effectiveness, rather than just carry on doing things as you have always done them. It is about questioning, in a positive way, what you do and why you do it and then deciding whether there is a better, or more efficient, way of doing it in the future. He describes 2 types of reflection: reflection- in- action and reflection- on- action. This paper describes a three-step process of self-reflection encompassing critical appraisal, peer group discussion and self-awareness. In ancient East, mirrors were regarded as sacred objects having magical powers. They also symbolize water, in that they reflect the world and self, or the enlightened psyche. At the same time, however, they sometimes symbolize arrogance and vanity. Mirrors trigger self-awareness. Two main types of reflection are often referred to – reflection-in-action and reflection-on-action.
What is reflection and why is it important?
Reflection is a process of exploring and examining ourselves, our perspectives, attributes, experiences and actions / interactions. It helps us gain insight and see how to move forward. Reflection is often done as writing, possibly because this allows us to probe our reflections and develop them more thoughtfully. Reflection brings learning to life. Reflective practice helps learners find relevancy and meaning in a lesson and make connections between educational experiences and real life situations. It increases insight, and creates pathways to future learning. Academic reflective writing should: develop a perspective or line of reasoning. develop a link between your experience or practice and existing knowledge (theoretical or personal) show understanding and appreciation of different perspectives to your own. The 5R framework for reflection will guide you through Reporting, Responding, Relating, Reasoning, and Reconstructing to make sense of a learning experience. The two types of reflection are diffused reflection and regular reflection.