Strategies Of A Personal Reflection

Being resilient is an essential quality to living a well-rounded, happy, auspicious life. Resiliency is one of the main four areas of positive psychology. Having fortitude and backbone even during times of tragedy is a critical component to having a high emotional intelligence and inner strength. During my childhood I had many risk factors that might have caused me to deteriorate and allow myself to let those misfortunes take over my entire life. Growing up we were lower middle class, my father worked in construction and my mother was an at home CNA to an elderly woman. My brother has severe infantile autism and

Teaching resilience. There are numerous aspects associated with developing resilience in my classroom. I assisted the learner to make realistic plans and create steps to carry them out. I helped students foster a positive view of them-selves and nourish confidence in their strengths and abilities. We develop communication and problem solving skills and I helped them manage their strong feelings and classroom behavior issues.

Heading into the first semester of college, many students do not know what passion of theirs they want to pursue for the rest of their lives, let alone the steps to achieve a realistic way to follow it and ideally make a living doing so. However, when I began my first year at Minot State University, I knew I wanted to continue my journey in English, although, I did not know whether I wanted to lean towards education or, in a perfect world, become the editor of a newspaper. Coincidentally, my Honors’ Community class’ final project required choosing something to learn about, and simply, learning about it. Since I had already known about English education, being that I had been taught by them for more than a decade of my life, I chose to learn about the ins and outs of “Becoming an Editor.” Doing so, I not only learned more about being the editor of a newspaper, but I also related more to the Honors’ experience at MSU, reinforced my passions, and clarified my future.

When I was at a young age I used to love writing with all my heart. I would write only about fantasy because it was my own way of getting out of reality. When I wrote my fantasy stories I would go so deep into my writing that I would not notice anything else other than the words flowing through my mind as I write. As I grew older my writing changed. I started to write about my everyday experiences and my thoughts all on one paper. I found this method to be relaxing and I felt at ease when I begin writing.

So, I don’t actually like remembering this one experience due to how I get all sad and broken inside once the subject is brought up once and a while by some non-autistic like me wanting to either get on my nerves, or just needs to complete their assignment for their current class. And thanks to many, many people that I’ve known that have pressured me to explain the aftermath of this incident, I said that I’ll give in to that once that certain time comes. And that time is now.

As a physical therapy student, many peers have asked why I chose to minor in psychology rather than taking a simple course in human performance and fitness or biology. Taking this course, I am confident in my minor decision and realize the importance of mastering and utilizing effective communication, genuine listening, and authentic presence, especially in a physical therapy setting. Several counseling theories were presented over the course of the semester looking at their basic philosophies, the relationship between client and therapist, and key components to effective treatment. There were three theories in particular, Adlerian therapy, existential therapy, and rational emotive behavior therapy, which I found to really resonate with my beliefs, values, and experiences. By integrating these three theories together, using the common factors approach, I was able to identify similar core beliefs and principles in each to create my final theory of change.

My first client sat in silence, save for the occasional kissing sounds he made. He had been involuntarily committed under the Baker Act the day before. Since he lacked family or friends, I was appointed as his guardian advocate and became responsible for overseeing his treatment and protecting his rights as a patient. I mentally rifled through my training manual. It can get better. This phrase peppered the pages in my mind, but advice on helping nonverbal, slightly suggestive clients was scarce. Ask open ended questions. I heeded the manual's suggestion, but his stubborn gaze met each attempt. Frustrated, I left with a promise to return the next day.

For those of you who know me well, you know that since last November I actively participated in recruiting with the big four accounting firms. My free time throughout the week in the school year was spent going to socials, interviews, case studying and team building exercises. I was learning how to socialize in a business environment and I was learning to like the black pants suit with a nice pair of Tory Burches for comfort neatly packed in my purse. In fact, I even mastered the cocktail social. The cocktail socials were the most difficult for me because I am only 20 years old and thus, I couldn’t drink because I figured using a fake id to buy alcohol in front of a future potential employer was a bad idea. So I had to schmooze recruiters completely sober, which as easy as it sounds is a hard feat to accomplish. However, by the time my final two cocktail socials rolled around I had mastered what I like to call my signature power move to impress employers and that move was packing my own bottle of Stella Artois in my purse and then casually bringing it out once the full social was in swing that way I could drink alongside the seniors from Terry and Franklin college. I felt my recruiting game had instantly improved after making the revolutionary connection that BYOB was my golden ticket to a summer internship with one of the BIG FOUR.

“I plan to give members of my committee more control over their initiatives,” I said before the senate body after my appointment as the new Academic Affairs Chair within the Student Government Association. Forever encapsulated into the meeting minutes was my bold idea: the Renaissance of the Academic Affairs Committee.

When meeting others, the observations I make are immediate. I often assign traits and characteristics to them without being conscious of the fact that I am doing so. How I react to them – and whether or not I desire another interaction with them – is dependent on these assignments. The characteristics I admire in myself, and the attributes that I observe in others form these assessments. The Role Construct Repertory Test allowed me to recognize what traits I value in others, understand my personal constructs, and given me insight into my own cognitions.

In my first course at Walden University, Dr. Beebe asked for the reasons I am pursuing my advanced degree and gave her reasons why she did hers. It was part of our discussion board topic of igniting your passion to drive the work that we do. Her reason was similar to mine but I was caught off guard because until yesterday I was not ready to accept that I was doing this degree for me. It felt wrong that I was doing something for me because the world has so much issues and I am here dedicating a large part of my life and finances to do something for myself. After some reflection I was ready to accept it and embrace it without the feeling of guilt.

Answer: Resilience is about being independent, standing on your own two feet or taking back the power.

“Know who you are, and be it. Know what you want, and go out and get it!”

When thinking of class discussions and readings, I do not have difficulty separating my emotions from the content. For the most part, I have not experienced any reaction from a text that elicits a decisive reaction other than empathy. While reflecting on my everyday life, I realized I do have an experience that is a trigger for me. It evokes emotions out of me regardless of how minimal the interaction is. Recently, I have been having more physical and emotional reaction when I see a police officer or their vehicle. Growing up, I was always weary of police officers. I can remember my mother joking that my father was always afraid of police officers. I dismissed my weariness as I grew older because I assume I had such a blatant reaction

Resilience is defined as an attitude that enables the individual to examine, enhance, and utilize the strengths, characteristics and