Personal and Professional Development
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A REFLEXIVE AND REFLECTIVE DEMOSTRATION AND CRITIQUE OF MY PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AS A STUDENT COUNSELLOR.
Introduction
This essay will describe and explain how my reflexive and reflective personal and professional development has influence my growth as a student counsellor. It will also describe my growth as a potential counsellor using reflective practise and evaluates practice has been informed with the qualities, values and personal boundaries within the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) ethical framework and readiness to start counselling.
At the beginning of my second year this semester, there were a lot of uncertainty with regards to what is expected of me and setting goals with clear map for learning. I decided to go for personal therapy which has really help me until the excitement of my discovery takes hold and tutors were taking responsibility for all the mishaps of my fist year degree in the university. My starting point is my beliefs, based on reflection on my own personal and professional development as a student counsellor. The two are both inextricably connected, and reflecting on it is an essential part of learning that is vital for effective learning that allows me to be honest with myself about my insecurities in readiness for counselling need.
While professional development focuses on one's profession or area of expertise, personal development focuses on the individual herself.
Therefore by increasing and improving in my personal development; l will also broaden my professional skill capacity and efficiency. It could be said that professional development plan is a division of “personal” development plan -- that focuses on your entire life and "professional" only on the subset dealing with work/career (Zajas, 1994).
Professional development can be defined as the process by which a person maintains the quality and relevance of professional throughout learning and working life. It has been...
Introduction
This essay will describe and explain how my reflexive and reflective personal and professional development has influence my growth as a student counsellor. It will also describe my growth as a potential counsellor using reflective practise and evaluates practice has been informed with the qualities, values and personal boundaries within the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) ethical framework and readiness to start counselling.
At the beginning of my second year this semester, there were a lot of uncertainty with regards to what is expected of me and setting goals with clear map for learning. I decided to go for personal therapy which has really help me until the excitement of my discovery takes hold and tutors were taking responsibility for all the mishaps of my fist year degree in the university. My starting point is my beliefs, based on reflection on my own personal and professional development as a student counsellor. The two are both inextricably connected, and reflecting on it is an essential part of learning that is vital for effective learning that allows me to be honest with myself about my insecurities in readiness for counselling need.
While professional development focuses on one's profession or area of expertise, personal development focuses on the individual herself.
Therefore by increasing and improving in my personal development; l will also broaden my professional skill capacity and efficiency. It could be said that professional development plan is a division of “personal” development plan -- that focuses on your entire life and "professional" only on the subset dealing with work/career (Zajas, 1994).
Professional development can be defined as the process by which a person maintains the quality and relevance of professional throughout learning and working life. It has been...