Narrative Reflection

There are many lessons to learn in life. I believe that we are dealt with some trials, some larger than others. We make choices based on our reactions to these certain circumstances some of us regret our choices or decisions and learn from them to do better the next time. I believe that is what life is about. What choices we make and the outcome of the choices and what we can do to make it better is our decision.

After I had come to a more relaxed state of mind, I began to question what made my mom want to move us away from all of our activities, routines, friends and family. I remember being so perplexed over what was so great in this new town that caused her to want to live in it. Marrying a new man was an adequate reason, I suppose, since she and my dad split a few years back. I contemplated on what it could be like to live in a new town and new house. I wondered what the people would act like and what friends I would acquire. Then it dawned on me- I was going to a new

Group work and facilitation are foundational to the profession of social work and require a considerable amount of skill and awareness on behalf of the facilitator. Committed to interdisciplinary collaboration, social workers have become emerging leaders in interprofessional healthcare teams (Jones & Phillips, 2016). “Interprofessional collaboration happens when practitioners, patients, clients, families, and communities develop and sustain interprofessional working relationships that facilitate optimal health outcomes” (CIHC, 2010). With this definition in mind, I was excited to share my previous experience within a clinical interprofessional team as well as collaborate with my group members to gauge their understanding and brainstorm ideas. Meeting multiple times over the semester, our group finalized the details of our fictional task group early on and an overview of this information is provided in the appendices. The first half of this paper will outline a critical commentary of the second team meeting, examining my role and behaviour as a co-facilitator, while the second half of the paper will discuss my experience within the development/implementation of our fictional task group.

Narrative therapists seek to disconnect the grip of obstructive stories by externalizing problems. By challenging negative versions of events, therapists make room for flexibility and hope.

When we look upon Narrative Therapy, we look at the person rather than the problem. This means separating the problem from the person or family. Narrative Therapists believe that people are the solutions to their own problems or issues. They also believe that people are special, and can find the answers to problems or issues that they are experiencing.

So far, I have nearly completed my first sub question and am writing the references and bibliography of it. Moreover, I have finished my source evaluation template for my question, which has helped me to know how effective my research sources are and how they had helped me to know more about my question. As my first sub question requires a lot of depth I think I will require more time on answering it. For now, to be honest, my management plan is not as effective as I thought as I am still stuck in my first sub question, which I was supposed to do 1 week earlier according to my management plan. I think I am using my time wisely as I continue to do research on my topic whenever I get time. But to complete my work in time, I will have to utilize

This will be my ninth week working with Community Partnership of the Ozark. During this week I was able to help set up for a Triple P training and I also began to read my Facilitators manual for the Triple P training I took last week on level 2.I set up for a level 3 training, I set up the tables and chairs in a U shape in order to create equality and interaction. I also made sure they had all the materials required in order to do the training. The training is intended for parents with children ages 0-12. Level 3 consists of a four session intervention, target parents of children with mild to moderate behavior difficulties and includes active skills training for parents (Ralph and Sanders). Level 3 is a face to face or telephone intervention

The summer of 2008 I spent most of my time with my three friends Josh, Jalen, and Carson. We would bike, wrestle, explore the woods on the fourwheeler and much more to keep ourselves occupied. However, on one chilly day our playfulness created something so bad I could not own up to it.

Much discussion has been had regarding what narrative therapy is and what it is not, as the definition may at times seem ambiguous. According to a study done in 2011 by Jennifer Wallis, Jan Burns and Rose Capdevila, a better understanding of narrative therapy was given with the following words:

The role of the instructor in online education has been the subject of copious literature and research studies since online education alters the widely accepted traditional role of the instructor in traditional face-to-face educational settings. Berge (1995) in his article, “The Role of the Online Instructor/Facilitator” discusses the presence of the instructor in courses offered primarily at a distance and identifies a framework that consists of four categories that must be fulfilled by the online instructor/facilitator to successfully support learners in distance education. Berge (1995) discusses the pedagogical, social, managerial, and technical roles of the instructor and provides suggestions on the tasks each role entails.

This lead to the choice of moving out of state, from literally all of the rest of our family is, and to Ohio. The move happened right before I started preschool, so I was around four years old at the time. We found a relatively cheap farm style house, in Liberty Center. Liberty Center has a population of around 2,000 people, so we got to know most of the town and everyone at school. Aside from being thousands of miles away from the rest of our family, we lived a generally comfortable life for six more years. When I was about ten years old, my mother had been diagnosed with breast cancer. We were all told everything would be okay, and that the cancer would be taken care of. For the next couple of years, things started to take a steady decline in events. After my mother’s cancer treatment, she caught a staph infection and became sick again. After being released from the hospital, my mother was transferred to a nursing home for treatment and physical therapy. She was there for many months and came home for holidays. In the beginning of April, 2009, she was cleared to stay at home permanently. She was still hurting even at home, and through many nights I could hear her screaming in pain downstairs in the middle of the night. Exactly two weeks after she

This Reflective narrative will be based on how I tried something new and how it affected me in my future. The reflective narrative will be based on a time, I tried to eat better. When I did this I worked and eaten better with my Dad to accomplish this goal. When I tried this experiment I felt that I could try more things like going to the gym to work out and going running on the track. Or using different ways to learn in that subject in schools.I learned that trying new things could affect the way you think on different things. I don't think that I should have ever given up on this goal, I should have been pursuing a goal like this for the next few years to come. In my future I will keep trying new things like this goal to help with my body

It is also assumed that the act of telling a story can provide insight into past, present and future events (Espinoza, 1997). By going through this process, individuals can find the importance of certain events and assign roles to people who are a part of their story. This act can allow a client to find new meaning and understanding to their reality (Espinoza, 1997). Not only is a

My biggest area of improvement this year as a writer was my style and structure. Last year, in English I, we learned a writing technique called “The Evidence Sandwich”. It was a basic claim, evidence, commentary, structure for writing body paragraphs. This was helpful when I was a freshman, but as a grew as a writer sophomore year, this made my writing sound static and robotic. As my writing progressed through the school year, I started breaking free from that structure, enabling me to add flow and style to my writing, while still maintaining the requirements for a successful body paragraph. Meanwhile, my writing started shifting from pure summary to actual literary analysis. These changes transformed my writing into more improved and polished papers. A challenge I faced this year was my writing process and my work ethic. At first I was very excited about the amount of essay writing time we had in class. However, as the year continued, I found the stress of sophomore year and all my other classes clouding my focus. This made it very hard to sit down in class and work on my essay without reaching to my other binder. I feel that if I had worked harder to focus in class and get more work done, my essays would have been much better because I would have had more material to revise ahead of time and ask Ms. Hursh questions on, and less work to do the night before the deadline. Next year, I will aim to use my time in class wisely so I have more time at home to focus on college and other junior year items.

When I first started elementary school I was horrible at writing and speaking English, despite English being my first and only fluent language. I started every sentence with "also" and I could hardly say my name. I generally looked at my mom to say pronounce it for me. To be fair, though, Xzavior is a hard name for someone in Kindergarten to pronounce. I was so bad that the school had to put me in an extra English class, so that I did not fall too far behind. Sadly, I did not improve quickly and created a horrible(and hilarious) sentence stating my improvement by first grade (figure 3). Luckily, by fourth grade I had improved enough to only take the required English course for my grade. However, "artistic" writing has never been my forte