Choose 3 of Your Direct Observations Carried Out in Your Plo. Using These as the Context, Produce a Critical Reflection on What You Have Learned About Your Own Practice.

This helps practitioner’s work together for the welfare of children. It promotes the Every Child Matters outcomes to reinforcing how important it is for all child careers to work together.

I am of the opinion that as a child practitioner an essential part of our work role will involve actively seeking to evolve and where apt build relationships. Consequently having a significant impact on children and young people’s lives.

As a practitioner it’s your duty to observe and maintain correct procedures to ensure that the children are offered a stimulating environment which will further allow optimum possibilities for development. All those who work with or amongst children and young people have a crucial role to play in helping not only to shape aspects of their lives, but to also aid in enhancing their future development. Therefore it can be stated that how we set up our own working practices can affect children and young people’s development, as will be identified by this essay; below are areas where one should concentrate in order to further

A Reflective account, which addresses the subject of personal development, within the role of a social care worker.

Through critical reflection we have a better understanding of power relationships, which makes us mindful of not perpetuating people’s experiences of oppression in our working relationships with them. Deconstruction highlighted how implicit construction of power is disenabling and easily subscribed to as the dominant discourse. Critical reflection allows social workers to silently asking oneself as observing oneself in practice questions such as: What is my part of this feeling of tension or conflict. What can I own, how have I added to it? This helps social workers examine situations of tensions rather than blame other workers and or service users, creating a possibility and space for building more positive working relationships in solidarity. This in turn increases personal agency to create social change. We can get stuck in modernist thinking in scripts of ways of thinking and or doing things. Postmodernism and reconstructive processes through critical reflection, allows new alternative ways to think about the doing in our practice. To celebrate diversity and recognize pain and suffering is also diverse. (Bloom, 2006).

Argyris and Schon (1974) suggest that practitioners often practice at less than effective levels because they follow routine. Johns (1995) implies that action can be taken through reflection to increase effectiveness in practice as reflection provides opportunities for self development as professionals and individuals (Hinchliff et al., 1993).

Reflection is crucial in social work as it enables us to think back at our past actions in order for the knowledge gained to impact our future practices. Our experience should broaden our knowledge and knowledge gained from different experiences should enable better practices, (Kolb 1984, Schon 1983, 1987, 2002 and Gibbs 1988).

Through studying health and social care I can justify my understanding of problems that affect people and how society can affect individual’s life and behaviour. In society people may face different problems such as abuse, disabilities or mental illness when living in residential homes or with families who may struggle to get right facilities or treatment they deserve, as I carry on with my course it has developed my curiosity in learning more, I feel this is preparation for further studies in University to study to become a social worker.

Reading this article and through my social work courses, it’s apparent that one of the most important skills in becoming a social worker is to be self-aware in order to become more socially competent. When we know ourselves and what we believe, we can go further in trying to understand others beliefs and why that differs from our own. However, even though this task might seem easy, being fully aware of yourself is not the easiest thing to do. When we do things, such as contemplative practices, we take the time on working towards our self-awareness, and in return could one day become a better social

During my placement at the Palmerston North CAFS team, I got to meet many children and adolescents with mental health concerns. I was directly and indirectly involved in CAFS clients’ care, and all experiences I had in the clinical setting enabled me to identify my strengths and weaknesses. Furthermore, working closely with a particular client as part of my practice case study, especially gave me an opportunity to practice social work as a beginning practitioner and enabled me to utilise my people skills which I have gained from previous work experience as an intellectual disability support worker. This part of my report will describe my involvement with support for this teen client.

Dewey (1933 cited in Sharpy, 2005) first described reflection in terms of ‘thinking about thinking’ and encouraged professionals to examine the underlying rationale for their choices. In the early 1980’s reflection as with all professions it is important to evaluate your performance as a counsellor. No one is perfect. No one gets it right 100% of the time. Most people are hesitant to objectively look at their performance. However, in counselling, as in many other professions, it is important to be able to critically evaluate how you performed. In this way you can identify any areas that may require change. There are a number of strategies that can be implemented to assist you in monitoring and/or improving the way

Lastly the person I am and why I am this way. It’s funny; I had never taken so many questionnaires’ and studies in five weeks than in the last ten years. Was it a bit tedious? Yes. Was it a pain in the butt? Oh yeah. But doing these really open my eyes on why I act the way I do and other act the way they do. It is astonishing of how many studies; we’re made and taken just too clarified of why people are the way they are. Learning the entire different model’s DISC, MBTI, Stress test, LPI is just some of the tools I have learned. By implicating what I learn will make me a better leader and

This reflection paper is said to help me access my strengths as well areas for further growth. In order to accomplish such, I am to reflect on a strength I have demonstrated in an interaction, meeting, and program and so on with a client or employee followed by an interaction where I did not perform well or would have liked to have achieved a better outcome. Thus, this paper will be broken into two parts, one where I discuss the interaction that showcase a strength of mine and another where I reflect on an interaction where I wished I could have left with a different outcome. To allow for a more balanced and in-depth reflection, the two categories will be further broken down to address items such as, what social service work

In comparing Child and Youth Care (CYC) with related disciplines, it is important to keep in mind that the ideals that are often thought of as specific to CYC, in fact transpired simultaneously within similar practices (Modlin & Newbury, 2016). Many aspects of the CYC profession have been developed based on principles which come from a variety of practices. These disciplines include “fields of medicine, education, and psychology – primarily with some from sociology, social work, nursing and general arts education (Anglin, 2001). For the purpose of this paper, the related discipline that CYC will be compared to is that of the Social Work profession. This paper will compare the two practices through a Social Pedagogy lens, incorporating specific characteristics from both disciplines.

As recommended by Green, Gregory & Mason (2006), I believe that “developing a reflective approach to practice and access to good supervision appear to be essential ingredients in the development of this type of professional mastery” (p. 459). Green et al. (2006) recognize that professional distancing runs on a continuum and that it is the social worker that needs to be able to use their own professional judgement, along with being reflexive and using supervision as a way of ensuring that our relationship with our clients is appropriate and in their best interest. Yet, it was also necessary, as recommended by Suarez, Newman & Reed (2008), to use an “active self-reflection that interrogates what we hold to be true and pushes us beyond