Personal Reflection Paper

In this paper I plan to briefly review what happened during the counseling demonstration. Next, I will discuss two basic counseling skills that I believe I used well, and one that I struggled with. Finally, I will discuss the next steps I will take in order to improve my counseling skills.

The clocks at LIH appeared to be online and communicating to the WDM. I began my check to start data collection that is when I realized the clocks are not operating normally. I tried to reboot, initialize, and test both clocks though it appeared the clocks were in the process of successfully completing the task, it failed. Within the last two hours, I managed to get both clocks to complete a data collection successfully. I contacted Kari, LIH Coordination Center and request to have a TSO swipe their badge on both clocks located at the Checkpoint and Break Room, respectively.

When I first learned about this assignment, I was a bit skeptical. Having to go to the same place every week and journal about my experience did not really appeal to me and seemed tedious. I was never really big into journaling, but after the first visit, I was hooked. After the first visit, I was amazed at how much of a relief it was to have nothing to worry about except the beauty that was right in front of me. Feeling the this sense of calmness wash over me was unbelievable.

I wonder if everyone, despite their varying backgrounds from one another, has experienced “imposter syndrome” at some point in their life. There are numerous ways in which one can feel out of place, as I can firmly attest to. I feel like an outsider all of the time. Dating back as far as my early childhood, my personality and my interpretation of my personality, has lead me to believe that something is very wrong with me. Why am I so different from the outgoing and energetic people I see in movies and even in my everyday life? Why are there so many misconceptions about people like me, and why am I starting to actually believe that they are true? I can recall many experiences in my life in which I have felt inadequate compared to my

Self-awareness is important in everyday life, for certain individuals, it can conduct an entire day of activities and decisions. This reflection of my self-awareness is based off personal positive and negative attributes which are a direct reflection of who I am as a person. To have an outside view of these attributes, I interview my girlfriend Stephanie Russo who is also my best friend. Stephanie has been close to me for the past three years as we grew as individuals. Because of this growing process, I believed that Stephanie would provide the most accurate account of my true inner qualities and weakness. Stephanie started with my strengths which described me as a hard-working individual who is determined and both kind and very caring of

As an English Language Learner that I still am, I have encounter through my path many barriers that could have prevented me from over achieving and gotten this far in my career. Now I reflect back as I see young English Language Learners in schools that struggle but don’t give up thanks to such an amazing effective teachers that have dedicated their time and effort in helping ELLs achieve academically. I believe in providing now a classroom fulfilled with hope, care, over comers, respected with equality for all cultures and different backgrounds. My fluent Spanish to English translation could possibly be a challenge when not knowing to translate a specific word but will learn and do anything that is at my reach to get my message across. I hope to establish a classroom that provides the support for all students specially the ELLs that are my main focus to be working with. By providing appropriate visual prompts around the room, allowing ELLs to sit with English speakers, providing activities that are structured to support student-to-student or group interaction, and establishing an environment that has certain rules and routines to follow, I will be supporting ELLs as well as the other students. I will at no time discriminate against other cultures or different background beliefs.

I am Hoang Le Tri Cuong. I am a scholar who is studying at Saint Joseph's Institution (SJI).

Its easy to forget the significance of independence and how different our lives would be without it. I had the opportunity to meet a young woman, who was in the middle of the hardest time of her life. She had just had all four of her extremities amputated as the result of sepsis, due to rejected pregnancy complications. After spending three helpless months pinned to a hospital bed, she was brought to the semi-acute hospital I was shadowing, where I saw her every day for four weeks. Her initial physical impairments, stoping her from lifting what remained of her arms of the bed, was just scratching the surface of what she was dealing with. She was suffering immensely mentally as well. Over the last three months her independence had been striped from her, and she was completely dependent on the aid of the hospital staff and her therapists. The therapists working with this patient showed the highest level of professionalism through communication and accountability.

I am now approaching the conclusion of my college career and starting to adjust to work life. This is a period of self-reflection and an attempt to put everything I learned into perspective. During this period of my life, I have been constantly thinking and contemplating my future. I feel very anxious yet nervous during this time while I am adjusting to this new stage of my life. When I was in High school my life was very structured, because I could be very dependent on peoples help and I obviously still lived with my family. When I went to college, I had to break away from that feeling of dependency and start the adjusting to adulthood. In college there was more responsibility and I started to become more independent. This was a crucial step in my life but choosing a career is going to be an even bigger step. It is a bigger step because; I have to start structuring my career goals and family goal for the future. At this moment all I can think about is my career, and how I can I keep improving myself for work life.

I believe being the youngest of two children has significantly shaped me into who I am and how I relate to people. I always had less responsibility than my brother and I am the more carefree, easy-going, and sociable sibling. Growing up I looked up to my brother and I still do. He is intelligent, hard working, and determined. I possess these qualities but not in the way my brother does. In third grade I was diagnosed with dyslexia, I had a difficult time with reading comprehension. I was able to read but I could not process nor understand the meaning of what I read. As a result, I relied heavily on tutors and learning centers in order to excel in school. Several years later I was diagnosed with ADD, I struggled with staying focused and processing what I was learning. I often felt discouraged and did not understand why I had such difficulties in learning things that seemed to come easily to others. This experience dramatically lowered my self confidence and how I viewed myself. It led me to question my abilities and I often felt timid. As I grew up and I began to experience new things, both bad and good, I consciously decided that I needed to shift how I viewed myself and the world. The book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People states that our paradigms, correct or incorrect, are the sources of our attitudes and behaviors, and ultimately our relationships with others (Covey, 1998). This shift in my thinking allowed me to value myself and my abilities and

I am about ten years old in elementary school. The foundations that will dictate the rest of our educational career are embedded here. We’re all beginning to become self aware, realising we are separate entities from the others around us, although we haven’t quite understood what that means. We have also begun to wonder what our private parts are meant for and why they come in two different sets. We’re told about these “changes” that we’ll undergo in the next years, how our bodies will change and how we’ll come to resemble our mothers and fathers. In a class of 30 you can pick out four of the girls whose bodies have already begun to morph into something entirely different. I’m not among them, but I wonder about what I’ll turn into when my body starts changing. I am thin and tall with very long hair, but I don’t feel very pretty and I’ve convinced myself that I am not human because if I was then I would like the other girls in my class. The adults around me tell me I’ll grow into myself which isn’t a concept ten-year-old me can fathom and so the adults probably just feel sorry for little ugly me.

Throughout the entirety of this project I was able to take a step back and look at myself as a future professional in the fitness industry, and I was also able to help a person achieve something that he had been wanting to do for a long time. This project provided me with an outlet to be able to work one on one with a client in something other than just the workouts. For the entirety of my time in my fitness career I have been working on creating workouts that would challenge athletes physically, improve their athletic performance, and also reduce the risk of injury. Yet this project allowed me to look at a side of fitness that I had neglected up to this point. Overall it provided a chance for me to switch up my mindset on things and it really opened up my eyes to a whole different way of thinking when it comes to fitness, and it also provided very meaningful information that I can use and implement in my career moving forward.

“Teamwork makes the DREAM work” is the motto that Raquel Tellez, Service Chief II for the Community Counseling and Supportive Services a Prevention and Early Invention program within Behavioral Health Services (BHS), lives out every day with her team at the clinic and with her approach to client care.

By the time you turn 18 and move to college, you think you know yourself pretty well. Taking the StrengthsFinder Quiz presented me confirmation of some things I saw in myself before and brought an aspect out that I hadn’t recognized before. The five themes I was said to exemplify most are belief, relator, harmony, empathy, and connectedness. Having belief represents being driven by my beliefs and rarely stray from them as they serve as my purpose in life. Relator means I appreciate having very close relationships with a small group of. Harmony stands for my dislike of conflict. Having empathy means I am aware of other people’s emotional state and try to relate to them. Lastly, connectedness states that I believe everything happens for a reason. According to this quiz, these are my five strongest traits and the people I love most seem to agree with me in our reactions to them.

In high school, countless obstacles are thrown your way that can decrease motivation, happiness, and overall mental well-being. Jobs, dating, friendships, and other high school normalities can have a substantial impact on a student’s life as well as their motivation to maintain favorable grades and perform well in extracurriculars. These have the power to diminish a person’s self-esteem and even induce harmful tendencies or thoughts. In response to these unfortunate realities, I continued to remind myself of those who built me up during my life as well as those who tried to bring me down. This mentality helped keep myself on track with where I desired to be when I graduated. During the process, I even learned that people or events that damage or pain you, can become one of your greatest motivators.