PRESONAL/PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Personal and Professional Development

Personal and Professional Development

Introduction

Counselling is a psychological specialization that alleviates people's personal and social performance in their lives. This field of psychology focuses on the social, emotional, professional, developmental, health-related and organizational interests for people. It integrates theory, research, and practice, with sensitiveness to multiculturalism, and covers a wide range of practices that assist people to assure their well-being, relieve distress, combat personality disorders, settle unforeseen situations, and gain their power to change their life and make it highly functional. Counselling psychology is unparalleled in its attention to both conventional developments of people as well as troubles related to physical, emotional, and mental disorders (Blocher, 2000b).

Johari Window

Self-knowledge is the one including one of the characteristics, feelings, behaviours and to know your limits, what situations you may experience at work. If you know it can help you, objectivity and help you in different situations. Develop self-awareness can help you recognize when we get stressed or under pressure. There is often an effective communication and interpersonal relations and the development of empathy for others. The best way to be yourself is self-confident, look at him through the Johari window; it shows you think about yourself, what have the people and how you see yourself (Blocher, 2000a).

The Johari window is the framework for understanding the self and a template to increase self-knowledge. It shows you parts of yourself that you were never aware of the blind itself shows you what other people notice that you may not have seen about themselves. The free surface is things you already know about yourself. The hidden areas are things that you do not want people know about you, because it is personal or problems that you that you have treated, but can still affect you have with some situations. The Johari Window and self-awareness go hand in hand to be aware you need to see how other people perceive and know what to do and helps you realize greater self-confidence. The Johari Window is a simple and useful tool for the realization and improvement of self-perception, and understanding between individuals within a group.

The benefits of independence are to be aware that you know your limits, what you do and what you cannot. You can be objective; and you will increase your ability to communicate effectively. Social workers should be self-explanatory aware of situations so that they understand their customers and not the tendency, so that the customers they deal with their situation to help without trial (Polk, 2006).

Reflexive and reflective practice

I got requested to complete a preoperative assessment on an elderly woman for cataract extraction using an ICP for t he intra-ocular surgery under LA. During the evaluation process, they expressed several times that they are extremely sensitive to things around eyes. While evaluating I watched by her body language and tone, she was very nervous and anxious about the whole person in the hospital experience. During the assessment, I have tried to reassure them; and gain their confidence by friendly ...