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.

There is something very important an individual may develop after graduating high school, or for some, even after college. A life skill that is required sometime before someone is put into the “real world”, which is what most teachers would label as the start to earning one’s own income and live on their own. For most people, they may acquire this skill after graduating college or high school. For me, I developed this valued skill at a young age. In my household, I grew up with one brother in high school, a father, and a mother, a normal family. What’s different is that I grew up in an Asian family. In fact, I was the only one to be born in the United States in my family tree. What that means is that I have had to gain responsibilities at a very young age, one might say too young. My past is represented by many negative effects due to my ethnicity, but now I have found that the repercussions has caused me to develop everything I need to successful later in my life.

José Meza interviewed two people of two different religions, David and Joseph. David is an 18-year-old college student who is of Hmong religion. He wishes others would know about his

Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization are two things that most people will experience in their lifetime. I know for I personally have experienced both during my 28 years of life. Invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization can both be damaging to yourself and other people involved. That is why I'd like to take the time to explain a few important topics on invidious comparison and vicarious traumatization, such as; how to stop invidious comparison, identify strategies that I currently use to avoid vicarious traumatization in my personal life, how those strategies will help me avoid vicarious traumatization as a human service worker and what strategies I could develop to avoid it as well.

How many people take time to go outside of their own religious community to talk about others’ point of view and beliefs? This can be an eye opener to why they do specific actions. The insight to the objects, beliefs and what they hold sacred can create a greater understanding and appreciation for the individuals. For this project, I choose to interview a coworker, one who I had not taken the time to ask about his religion/beliefs prior to this project.

First, the physical self on the medicine wheel consists of how well one is meeting their physical needs. Fulfilling these needs helps to maintain a healthy body and consist of adequate oxygen/air quality, water, food, exercise, rest/sleep, shelter, and clothing. (Eden & Golanty, 2004; Mussel, 2005). Personally, due to where I live and my socioeconomic status I can fulfill these needs. However, I do not because it is difficult to find balance in my life. On most days I do not consume enough nutritious food or drink enough water. Instead, because it is available, I eat a lot of junk food which causes me a lack of energy throughout my day. Another deficiency that affects my energy level is my lack of sleep. I get enough rest throughout the

When I came out to my mom I was feeling anxious and scared. She took it badly and scheduled an appointment for us to see a therapist to try and fix me . My family is catholic and believes who I am is a sin. I was misunderstood and judged for my actions and embracing who I was. I was still trying to process in a way to find happiness through all this. I wanted to express myself through fashion,hairstyle,sexual orientation. My community that identify myself with is the lgbt group. What connects me to this community is their diversity of sexual orientation,race/ethnicty, age. I believe that the community I am apart of encourages my individuality because I can count on support from this community with guidance. It has helped me to accept myself and to build confidence also to have a relationship with friends,family. For an example, My high school I went to encouraged me to be openly and diverse with the gay community. I developed friendships with people who supported and accepted me for who I am. Another example, I become closer with my cousin who was also gay. She helped me advice of how to communicate with my parents, to not be ashamed of the way I expressed myself, to stand up for myself.

I am Ethiopian. I was born and raised in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia. I belong to the Ethiopian community, not only in Ethiopia but also here in America. Finding Ethiopian friends who share the same interests as me, understand our culture, fluent in our languages, and plan on returning back to Ethiopia someday, has always been a struggle for me. Most of the Ethiopians who I meet are Americanized. When I was studying at Northern Illinois university, I was blessed to have a small circle of Ethiopians who grew up there. Spending time with them made me feel secure like I actually belonged. Lucky for me, I am also a part of the African community. There are 54 countries in Africa; however, there is an unbreakable bond amongst Africans around the world. We share the same identity and have the utmost love and respect for our continent and the people living there.

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.

The concept that one person is better than another based on unchangeable characteristics is a frivolous yet extremely prevalent doctrine that is accepted and conserved by a great number in our society. Race, class, sexuality and gender all determine ones privilege and power which, for me, has had a direct link to my own self worth. I have categorized myself habitually and have either increased or decreased my self confidence in accordance to my class, gender, sexuality, and race.

I have had the opportunity to meet people of many different backgrounds. In this paper, I will talk about two individuals with whom I had the pleasure of working with as a case manager at a behavioral health agency in the Greater New Orleans area. Before I go into detail about my experiences, I think it would be important to identify myself. I am a black female, in my early twenties who identifies as heterosexual. I also do not have any mental or physical challenges and grew up an upper middle-class family. Working in a diverse community has impacted my perspectives of people and groups in a positive way that has allowed me to be more aware and respectful of people that are different than me.

Have you ever wondered what others may think of you or how you act with certain people? Within this paper , I’m going to explain how I see myself and how those around me see me as a person. This should be interesting in the sense that who I’ve asked to complete this with me are on two different spectrums of my life. I’ve asked someone who has known me since birth and someone who has known me for a short amount of time compared to the other. I’m going to expand on how my interpersonal communication skills are influenced by my personality traits.

Over the course of six months, I have become proficient in using the general ledger, purchasing and sales orders/invoice menus in QAD. My process areas involve searching for invoices and purchase orders to solve inventory, AR, AP or fixed asset problems. I am often entering or updating projects in QAD and have learned how to investigate and solve account, sub-account and cost center problems. I have become proficient in how to find, change, upload and post journal entries and account balances within QAD.

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.

Self-evaluation or personal reflection is the ability to judge our character and personality while referencing to our values and ethics. What we believe to be good and what we also consider to be bad. The ability to know that good will always not be good in all circumstances. Self-evaluation also teach us about the selfish and the selfless behaviors of a person (Barrett, 2004). Do we make decisions that are affected by our selfish gains like we want to make a good life at the expense of other people personal reflection also help us know how we are growing and developing? People undergo changes over time, and these changes may affect their character.