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Used with the permission of Suzanne Petryshyn

This activity is relevant to your ongoing personal and professional learning as it is designed to help you reflect upon your experiences, to help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement as well as your personal preferences, values, biases, and emotional reactions to various events. The intent is to help you evaluate your learning and development throughout your professional career. Ideally, this activity will facilitate the integration of theory and practice into your everyday activities and support you in becoming a reflective practitioner.

Objectives
1. To help you reflect upon your experiences
2. To help you identify your strengths and areas for improvement as well as your personal preferences, values, biases, and emotional reactions to various events
3. To help you evaluate your learning and development throughout your professional career
4. To facilitate the integration of theory and practice
5. To help you become a reflective practitioner

How to Keep the Journal
1. With your entry, include the date and a brief description of a situation or learning event. Add a reflective comment about your learning, assumptions, insights, feelings, questions, and when possible, follow up action, resources, or other ‘to do' information.
2. This is a personal experience with personal reflections, which will reflect your personality, interests, and unique perspectives on your practice. Creativity and honesty are just as important as being thorough and challenging to yourself in your reflections.
3. If you feel comfortable and safe, invite others you trust to read entries and to provide feedback that will help further your professional development.

Getting Started
Begin your journal with some reflective questions to lay the foundation for understanding and analyzing your role; choose any five questions to respond to from the following list. Ensure that you type each question choice, and respond directly underneath, using examples and information that will serve to support your comprehensive responses. It is important that you communicate effectively. Please proofread and edit for correct grammar and sentence structure. Here are some examples of reflective questions:
1. What three things do I believe about my role and the value of effective communication?
2. What metaphors, images, or expressions would I use to describe my role?
3. What is my pattern of behaviour when involved in a conflict situation with my role? With what aspects of the pattern am I comfortable, uncomfortable?
4. What worries me most when I am involved in conflict about my role? How does this affect how I communicate with my clients/family members/friends?
5. What would I most like to change about how I engage in my role with clients/family members/friends?
6. What three areas of my role, or upcoming role, do I want to learn more about?
7. If you are not currently engaged in client-centered situations, but intend to be, answer the following questions: What strengths, knowledge, and skills do I bring to my ability to communicate in client-centered situations? Also, what are my limitations, and the growing edges, of my learning?

Additional Inclusions
You may want to include and reflect upon the following:
1. A critique of readings dealing with ethics in client-centered approaches.
2. Reactions to particular ideas or comments raised by others during discussions.
3. Online posts (news sources, social media, etc.), about current situations and your analysis on how these situations are/were managed.
4. The recounting and analysis of a conflict in your personal or professional life-what did you say, what didn't you say, and why?
5. Any brain-waves (new ideas, comments, "aha" moments) that may have occurred to you.
6. Insights about your values, biases, personal preferences, and communication style.

• Length: 4 pages minimum and 5 pages maximum (excluding title page and references pages (if applicable). See APA Student Guide for title page template and references page information and formatting
• APA Format

Attachment:- Objectives.rar