Reflection Of Self Reflection

This is my end of year grade 12 culminating self protariate. The project was to create two self portraits but to have them on one page. Initially, I did not expect myself to finish before school ended due to how long it took me to complete it last year. But by reflecting on what happened last year with my lack of time I was able to change my techniques up to fit the time span.

I am currently a student at the University of Texas at San Antonio for almost a whole semester now. I came to this school straight out of high school, not knowing what I was getting myself into. During my high school years, I was good at every subject except my writing class. Coming to UTSA, I knew I was going to struggle in my writing class, but that didn’t discourage me from not trying my best in the course. Going through the English program, I realized that I have some strengths and weaknesses in the class, and it encouraged me to do better. The essays I have written for this class demonstrate that I have developed a strong thesis, organization skills, and detail; however, I still need to improve on grammar, keeping the POV, and citing.

In 2013, an estimated 24.6 million Americans aged twelve or older (9.4% of the population) had used an illicit drug in the past month (NIDA, 2015). In 2016, about 3.6 million adults aged 18 or older received any substance use treatment in the past year, representing 1.5 percent of adults (SAMHSA, 2017). These numbers are not even taking into account any type of behavior addiction such as shopping, gambling, social media, etc. Strong of these numbers, as counselors we can see the importance to gain knowledge about drug and behavior addiction and its process. In order to have a better understanding of the process of change, we have been assigned to abstain from a substance or a behavior for a period of 15 weeks and to reflect about it.

Overall, I would classify myself as a generally healthy person. After going through the reading from the chapter, I can identify that some of these healthy characteristics are benefits of my environment and family history, while others have been established based off of promoting personal health. I know I personally avoid risk behaviors whenever possible, including smoking, using drugs, eating unhealthy foods, and consuming alcohol. Moreover, I take many preventative measures thanks to having a health education and knowing my family history, such as performing breast cancer checks and wearing sunblock daily.

Social work education enables professionals to explain and define clients’ experiences, problems, and issues. The levels are micro, mezzo, and macro. For example, the micro level consists of age, gender, income, health, spirituality, emotions, and cognitions. The mezzo level includes neighbors, co-workers, local economy, resources, church, family, and work. The macro level refers to politics, economics, community, culture values, history, government services and resources, discrimination, and oppression (Rogers, 2016). Social workers use these levels to conceptualize clients’ problems (Rogers, 2016). These external analysis, overlaps and interact with each

During the presentation, the team adapted the demonstration method inside of welcoming, did not perform encouragement for the audience to join the movie night and help out the charity. The plain slides style did not provide secure engagement and visual appeal. Ticketing system explanation was made

When I was young, I came to understand that a person’s creativity cannot be constrained to their situation. I learned that everything we do is based off the choices in our life. While someone can offend, discourage or harm you, they cannot force your response. As a decision maker, this taught me a lot about how I need to approach choices; that is, I cannot rely solely on instinct to choose a correct path. Mentors, friends, and family are needed to guide decisions, because they will weigh options based on unique experiences that they have, which will offer a more direct insight to make the correct choice. This is hard for me, however, since I am not one to create mentors or friends, which leads me to rely on family. A family can be supportive if necessary, but they default to positions when placed under new experiences. For example, when a child in my family has broken a lamp, the mother is the one to chastise while the father is responsible for cleaning up the mess. Like everyone else, my personality is derived from some sort of solution mixed between my parents. Introspectively in his corner is my father, a gray-haired book lover who studies adolescent drug use, and I seem to have taken most of my personna from his (yet I seem to be missing the book-loving part). He is a sociologist, which is pretty much the epitome of the term “researcher.” Though not wanting to study people’s societal trends, I do want to study human disease trends, specifically in the

There were two things I took away from the article, the first being finding out the root cause of where self-concept stemmed from. For example, according to the article self-concept is first shaped by our mother; we respond back with decisions or judgments based on our initial experiences from our first caregiver. "A child who had an unresponsive mother will act obnoxious or withdrawn so that people will want to keep their distance. Those with consistently responsive mothers are confident and connect well with their peers" (Flora). Evidently, this has always been the case, specifically true in a sense where our self-perception would be a result from how our

Going into this paper I really wasn’t sure what to expect. You do a lot more workshops then any English teachers I’ve had in the past. This also meant that I had to bring in a much rougher draft then I’m used to other people seeing. Letting other people read my paper in a raw unpolished state was a little bit nerve-wracking for me. Though, in the end, I’m really grateful for all the workshops and all the many different types of feedback it enabled me to receive on my paper

This is only the second class that I have taken since making the decision to return to college, and one in which I know has undoubtedly induced such a powerful personal impact, more so than any other curriculum I’ve studied. Reading the two books I was assigned required an enormous amount of self reflection and helped explain how certain occurrences shaped me into the person I am today, and taught me the necessary skills needed to elevate my understanding on the subject of biblical narrative, and how instrumental it is in developing my story. While both books discussed the topic of story, I appreciated how their different writing styles allowed me to gain a broader perspective on the subject in its totality. I took from Donald

Starting this assignment I was nervous because I wasn’t sure what my personal philosophy was. It took hours of self reflection for be to discover my counseling philosophy is fairly simple. It’s keeping it real. What does keeping it real mean? To me this means being honest with who I am as a person, translating it into my counseling skills, and most importantly project honesty to my future client’s in an effective manner. While it is important to keep it real with the client, it is important to do it in an empathetic and professional way. There is such thing as keeping it too real, which can lead to a bad counseling relationship, possibly ending in a referral to a new counselor.

Summer of 2016 wasn't made special because I traveled far from home and explored new places, in fact, it was quite the opposite. For three exciting months I worked as a volunteer assistant lifeguard for the Ventura County Junior Lifeguard program. I was recruited to aid professional lifeguards in conducting and supervising one thousand 7 to 17 year olds as they were taught water skills and ocean safety.

As a young child, I experienced an immense amount of love and care from my family. My mother cared for me the majority of the time as a child, as she was a stay-at-home mom. Having siblings, I sometimes thought that I was not sufficiently being listened to or given enough attention. However, looking back on it, we were all given an equal amount of attention as children. Occasionally one of us would have an event or situation happening in our lives that required more attention and as any child would, I got jealous because I felt like I should always be the center of attention. In elementary school, I was not able to easily make friends of my own age. Instead, I would bond with my teachers and the surrounding adults. I would label myself as a mixture of a secure connector and a pleaser. I am usually able to easily communicate my feelings and describe my own strengths and weaknesses. However, I also constantly feel like I need to do everything right in order to please the people around me. As a result of having great parents and mentors in my life, God has been able to evidently care for me through them. God was able to take the times that I struggled with as a child in elementary school and use them to my advantage as I got older, by allowing me to communicate at a higher level with people.

As an undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida, I learned a great deal about how societies generally function and how laws and policies can affect individual members of a society in unique and significant ways. With low-income families not investing in their educations past high school and lacking proper knowledge of how their governing laws and regulations work and are enforced, they often fall into predicaments that could be avoided if they just had someone to point them in the right direction. When I was President of the Student Government Association at Seminole State College, I often encountered peers and classmates who were unaware of the assistance available to them through the city or university if they simply didn’t have the means to meet their everyday needs. These students and other working adults in the community were struggling to acquire food and clothing, and yet there were churches, shelters, thrift stores, and vouchers available and easily accessible to them for assistance; with me being so passionate about helping others, I informed them of these resources available to them. Once I witnessed such hardships firsthand, it served as confirmation for me in what should could have been done and needed to be done for my former students. Also, when I served as the Region 3 Director for the Florida African-American Student Association, I participated in board meetings where my colleagues and I discussed various ways to ensure the equality of

Enrolling in EDUC 473 Teacher as a Researcher I had an idea of what we were going to be doing as I just finished up EDUC 373, as now we are at our final stages of the course what my idea was has complex turned into an understanding of knowledge. The first class we were asked what is a researcher and how can it be imagined? It was broke down into scientific and interpretive approaches, and the definition of Sylvia had for interpretive approach truly has stuck with me throughout the entire course, which is “truth is subjective, and all knowledge is created by interpretation.” (Kind,2017). Each portfolio entry we have done has been instructed but the interpretation of how each individual is subjective through their lens of thought has been a showcase of their entry. I feel as though Rinaldi states it beautifully as “information, though necessary, is not sufficient for this depth of understanding. Explanations, which are also indispensable, are still not enough for true understanding.Depth of understanding involves the ability to experience the curiosity, passions, joys and angers of others with a process of empathy, perception and identification, of human understanding”.(p.4). Noticing things was another major concept I learned in this course. Acknowledging my morning habits, to being able to reflect back on a image taken and though being in the image nothing things again looking at the printed image. The concept of a teacher as a researcher I feel we were taught its about