Self-Awareness Paper

The purpose of this paper is to have you reflect on who you are and to assess your readiness to help others change their health behaviors or to provide support for those dealing with the feelings brought on by health-related situations.

You are to write a “Personal awareness” paper exploring how your family history, individual motivations, values, cultural background and personal characteristics have influenced who you are today and how they might potentially impact your performance as a health counselor, both positively and negatively. This might include experiences with trauma, migration or immigration, religious and cultural beliefs, family and other relationships, loss, success, mentors and other factors, just to mention a few.

In order to be able to help others to change their behaviors, you need to understand the characteristics of a good counselor and to be able to evaluate your own potential in light of these characteristics. What strengths are you bringing to counseling process? How have you come to develop these strengths? In what circumstances have you observed that you have these strengths? What feedback, if any, have you gotten from others about them? What makes you think they will serve you well in the counseling process? Please give examples.

On the other hand, which of your characteristics are potentially problematic? How have they been problematic in the past? Describe those situations and issues that make you uncomfortable (e.g. anger, tears, etc.) Such issues may also relate to characteristics in your client (e.g. political differences), client circumstances, (e.g. helplessness in the face of a terminal diagnosis) or may be inherent in the setting/environment (e.g. working in a locked hospital unit.) Most importantly, for those issues that you’ve identified as potential difficulties, how are you planning to address them?

Demonstrate that you have examined some of the literature pertaining to characteristics of counselors and how these influence patient outcomes.  Discuss how these relate to what you are describing in yourself. Be sure to include appropriate footnotes and references following the APA format. But remember, this paper is really about you and not the literature, the references are just a small component. DO NOT WRITE A PAPER ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD COUNSELOR. 

The paper must be a minimum of 750 words & a maximum of 1250 words, double spaced, 12 font, 1 inch margins.

Look at this assignment as a sort of autobiography. Please be as open and honest as you feel comfortable. This is a rare opportunity to explore who you are as a person, what has made you who you are, and how this influences your practice. 

Please be assured that no one other than I will read this paper, and that I will NOT share your information with anyone. Be as creative as you want in terms of how you structure or shape this paper. 

This paper is worth 15% of your total grade. Students receiving the highest grades on this paper will be those who are sure to include all of the elements described above with an eye towards connecting them to potential performance as a counselor, and ideas for how to address these issues that are potential barriers to good performance as a counselor, and who include brief reference to the literature.

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