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Reflection On Personal Development

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The purpose of this essay is to describe my personal experiences during my part on the family assessment and goal planning which was the section pertaining to me specifically. Additionally, I will reflect over the family experience as opposed to the Dyad. I will analyze my expectations of the assignment prior to starting it and my perception after finalizing it. I will touch base on my experience while role-playing as both part of the family and as the social worker portion of the experience. Lastly, I will summarize my strengths and weaknesses and the areas of growth I identify that I need to develop as I see it fit to my professional growth.
The family experience, compared to the Dyad, was much more enjoyable. Although I found myself feeling nervous at times, I felt more comfortable overall, since I had more people in the group. The group felt more like a partnership in which everybody helped everybody. For instance, if at some point I, as the mom, did not know what to say, another team member would answer. Similarly, as the social worker I felt the group contributed towards goal setting. I never felt as If I had to do all the work on my own. Arguably, the family lab experience took some pressure off our shoulder since we had to take turns to role-play the social worker whereas with the Dyad each person had to be the social worker for every session.
I really liked how each of us “knew” our roles and acted accordingly without previous knowledge of a “script”. I felt our

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