Critical Inquiry Interview Reflection

This week’s reading involved an overview of initial clinical interviewing with the client. The paper will reflect on the reading that described various ways to obtain the background and the struggles of the client. In addition, this paper will reflect on personal observations, concerns, and strengths related to the intake interview.

Critical reflection in education is very important because it impacts on pedagogical practices of the early childhood educators and helps in developing child agency in effective learning contexts. In this essay will explore, what critical reflection means and its key components, the process of critical reflection and reflective practice is implemented in education, what impact is has on educators and the development of child agency through critical reflection.

I decided to interview our Costa Rican tour guide Victor. Some of the undergraduate students and I got an opportunity to talk to Victor about some of his travels and his life. The following interview questions focus on Victor’s life, his family, and his beliefs.

The aspect of Motivational Interviewing that really jumped out at me that seemed important was aligning myself with my client. I really think it is important for me to walk with the individual with whom I interviewing. Not to be in a state of agreement or disagreement, free from positive or negative judgements, just getting in step with the people I work with. I just recently used the “Magic wish” question, it’s probably the one I use the most for the beginnings of some self-determination for the clients. It kept us talking for an hour, and helped the individual with what can or cant be done with the presenting problem. The challenges that I anticipate with incorporating Motivational Interviewing into my professional interactions is just

It was in the year of 2011 where my passion for working with individuals with disability has risen. As a sophomore in college, there were various organizations that caught my attention. Nonetheless, during a career fair, I gained interest in working with children with autism following an orientation at New Way Day Services (NWDS). After working as a Behavior Technician at NWDS for a year, my desire to work with individuals with disabilities sparked to a greater level. I was privileged to experience the improvements in my clients’ daily living, public, and social skills. For example, after locating resources for my client’s communications skills, she was able to interact with her caregivers much distinctly.

In 2005 at Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School in Louisville, Ky I walked into the Behavioral Disorder classroom headed up by Mr. Miracle. He was an attractive older man with gray temples and salt pepper strands throughout his fully filled head. He had a smile that was tired but genuine and Paul Newman blue eyes that shined. He had been a Special Education teacher for over 20 years and he was exhausted. His disposition convinced me that working with special needs children was not going to a long-term plan if I wanted any sort of happily ever after. The classroom consisted of seven students, who were the picture of diversity via race, socioeconomics and cognitive ability. Their diagnosis ranged from conduct disorder to autism spectrum disorder.

Grandma- The internet for sure, all the technology in medicine, that’s it, I can’t think of too much more.

I was trying to find ways to broaden my insights on how to ask questions that would influence the perception of quality in my dissertation interview questions.  I wanted my dissertation to purport open-ended questions as a way of gaining knowledge about stakeholders’ experiences in the school environments. During this phase of deep thinking, something happened, I received an email -symbolic to a miracle of finding its way to a person that existed as being holistically part of the universe but felt a need to find roots of something. This email was about HOD offering ELC students the Phenomenology courses; receiving this information I thought was a perfect way for me to start contextualizing new knowledge to give value to life’s experiences

It is important for the interviewer or interrogator to be able to formulate effective techniques based on verbal and non-verbal cues because truly understanding what a person is saying, verbally and non-verbally, can “make or break” the interview or interrogation. Chapter 6 discusses in-depth detail how applying behavioral interviewing techniques can assist in effectively picking up on verbal and non-verbal cues.

Although I feel that I am great at using motivational interviewing approach, there are still things that I need to work on to enhance my practice. As any great future therapist, I must know where I struggle and ways to progress in the areas I struggle. Enlisting change talk, and assessing readiness is something that I can further develop by being open to discuss my challenges with my supervisor, colleagues, staff and practice these skills with my supervisor during supervision. I can research all the different therapeutic approaches and read about recent findings and changes to all the approaches used in therapy. I also think that it is important to read up on the different approaches that are used for different problems that clients face. Lastly,

As instructed early on in this course, I contacted my faculty advisor, Dr. Alyssa Weiss-Quittner, and scheduled an appointment with her for September 22nd, 2016. Around 8am that morning, we both joined a conference call in order for me to conduct my interview as well as for her to conduct an Academic Learner Review. Not only did I ask her eight questions during my initial interview, we also talked about possibilities and opportunities while pursuing a degree in Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy.

As an undecided major, most of my classes are general education and are there to fulfill requirements. However, I have an interest in education and special education so I took a special disabilities class. EDSP289I explores disabilities, “From Stigma to Slideshow” and the idea of disabilities being socially constructed. After being given the interview assignment in class, I knew who I wanted to interview immediately. I enjoy going to EDSP and learning about special disabilities so there was only one teacher I had interest in interviewing, Dr. Leone. I chose Dr. Leone because of my interest in his class but also because of my interest in him and his profession. After hearing about his real life experiences

W233 helped shape my writing and critical thinking by reframing my concept of what constitutes a good piece of writing. Prior to this course, I thought that a good paper consisted of an argument supported with solid word choice and consistent organization throughout to guide the reader through each paragraph. My thoughts at this time were more focused the “what” of an argument, but I learned that in order to write a great paper—especially one that involves mediating an argument—it is equally important to focus on the “how” and “why” of the argument. By this I mean that explaining a point of view on an issue does not result in good argumentation or negotiation, but instead fully understanding how the benefits and drawbacks affect all facets

The relevance of critical thinking cannot be overstated. In addition to helping us properly evaluate arguments, critical thinking skills also do come in handy in the enhancement of our reasoning capabilities. In this text, I concern myself with critical thinking. In so doing, I will amongst other things discuss what critical thinking means to me and the role it is currently playing in my life.

In the book, “Asking the Right Questions: A Guide to Critical Thinking (Ninth Edition), by M. Neil Brown and Stuart M. Keeley”, the authors examine the benefits of critical thinking as it relates to the process of asking the right kinds of questions. What are the right kinds of questions? These authors maintain that critical thinking is a method used to improve the way we think by asking the questions that would enable you to reach a personal decision that would eventually give credit to both sides of the discussion. Critical thinking is in essence the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of one’s experience, as it relates to the worth of the discussion at hand. The authors define