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Clinical Counselling Reflective Essay

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It applies to all teachers that it is a challenging issues between showing limits to your position and at the same time wanted to offer as much support to a student as possible. Sometimes I might be uncertain about my ability to help a student and therefore I decided that I should enroll in Counselling course and at the same time to enhance my studies.
Throughout the whole module 4 and together with my 24 hours certificate in Clinical Counselling and Psychology course, I have gather loads of knowledge and had narrowed them down to work on my assessment. I had chosen “Student Care Teacher” for my presentation topic because they are all involved in what I am interested in or happy with as a career. Choosing a topic which I was interested in helped …show more content…

Lesson 1: Introduction to career and guidance counselling

• 5 stages of career development

Lesson 3: Career Choice

• It is not about how smart you are, it’s how you are smart.
• You only success if you know how to be smart.

Through this reflection, it has closely linked to the concept of learning from experience. Reflection has greatly help with my learning both as a student and in relation to my work and life experiences. I have become aware of useful strategies to deal with issue with the counselling technique. I have always been a thinker, but throughout my coursework, I have greatly sharpened my analysis skills.

Although this is not the first time I’m preparing and delivering for a presentation, overall I am pleased and really enjoyed researching the topic and assembling the information into my assessment. Answering unseen questions at the end was something I was nervous about but that actually provides fantastic practice at responding on the spot. Completing this slide has taught me how to give an effective presentation. Gather experience and the important counselling fact and practicing on how to cater to those who in need made this project extremely worth for

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