Self Reflection Essay

Self – Help Group Reflection January 5, 2017 at 9:00AM I attended the We Care AA Skid Row Drifters Alcohol Anonymous group meeting. The meeting consisted of about 20 people. Located in downtown Los Angeles, skid row has as many as “6,000 homeless people living” there at any given time. (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3824528/Skid-Row-revealed-striking-photographs.html). I thought it was interesting that the group meeting was in the center of skid row. Individuals who live in skid row,…

how societal factors and behavioral components may impact a person’s psychological mindset and behavior, I attained an internship position in Dr. Simine Vazire’s Personality and Self Knowledge Lab at the University of California Davis. My hard working, committed attitude to the research and my thoughtful lab reflections quickly led to my promotion to coding experience for behavior (using the LIKERT scale). While not directly oriented to a face to face approach session with participants, it…

Introduction I currently work as a self-harm practitioner in a multidisciplinary community team which provides treatment for people who self-harm and have diagnoses of personality disorder. In my current role I have opportunities to work therapeutically with patients both on an individual basis and in groups. I enjoy being part of this multidisciplinary team and participating in the experiential group. Coupled with knowledge of theoretical concepts and frameworks I feel that this has greatly…

Self-Directed Search Form R: An Assessment and Reflection The Self-Directed Search (SDS) Form R provided a comprehensive introduction for an individual to survey what profession to pursue. As a student, I was afforded the opportunity to simulate the function as both test administrator and client of this instrument. There were three important lessons I have taken away from this exercise: first, progression through the administration process remained tedious, but was needed in order to aid in…

This paper will focus on personal reflection and analysis of the self-assessments provided by Pearson. The various assessments offered insight regarding a personal’s personality and characteristic, feedback on how an individual works with others, and analysis of life in organizations. The results of these assessments are based off of the answers that an individual provides – the answers then generate particular results which are dependent upon certain criteria. Utilizing those results to…

According to Prentice Hall’s self-assessment library I am an ESTJ and a Type-A on the personality spectrum. Both of these types lean towards a no nonsense approach to nearly everything. In fact (Kroeger, Rutledge, Thuesen, 2002) states ambiguity and creativity are not strong suites…

I have learned a lot about myself while completing the self-assessment questionnaires, and taking the time to self-reflection about my learning style and therapeutic mode. I have always thought my learning styles was an accommodating style, but since taking the Kolb’s learning styles questionnaire. I scored the following; 42 in reflective observation, 34 in active experimentation, 23 abstract conceptualization, and 20 in concrete experience. I discovered that my style of learning is diverging…

Joanna Flores Reflection English 1AF- Section 32 Prof. Smith Self-Reflection Essay Over the Fall semester of 2017, I have expanded my level of reading and writing in Stretch English. Some strategies that have helped me succeed this semester are annotation, revision, summarization, and drafting. As for reading to learn, articles in the New York Times have helped me a great deal. I learned to read different pieces and understand various authors’ ways of writing. I would print and annotate…

Friendship Self-reflection Series: Death of friendship I thought that we were friends. You said you’d always care, and that no matter what, you would still be there. To celebrate the good times to sooth me when I’m sad. But it seems that something I have said has made you very mad. So now you do not speak to me you seem not much to care. Have I hurt your feelings oh so much that you must pretend that I’m not there? That I no longer exist to you erased right from your mind like chalk dust on a…

A Reflection of the Self I found this to be an appreciable assignment in which I was pushed to exceed my normal comfort zone in writing and expressing my views. This assignment helped improve my writing and reading in several ways. I overcame struggles in my writing, reading and found innovative ways to progress through these difficult texts in the development towards writing this essay. The process of going from “Madman”, “Architect”, “Carpenter” and “Editor” was a tremendously useful tool in…