What ethical issues have you encountered or observed during your Practicum?

Self-Reflection
Paper Assignment

Overview
The Final Self-Reflection Assignment is an
exercise intended to prompt you to engage in the process of reflective learning
while demonstrating self-awareness, self-evaluation, and the ability to develop
a specific action plan that will aid them in improving their counseling skills.
You will complete this assignment in correlation with the Practicum Final
Evaluation completed by the student’s approved supervisor as well as by reflecting
on material learned in previous courses in order to integrate learning into
practice.

The
assignment must be 5 pages long, and it must address the following questions:
1.
Ethics:
What ethical issues have you encountered or observed during your Practicum? How
did your site and supervisor address those ethical issues? What have you
learned from your supervisor and from reading the ACA Code of Ethics on how to
address these ethical issues?
2.
Human Growth and Development: What client population did you work with
(children, adolescents, adults, senior adults)? How has what you have learned
in your Human Growth & Development (COUC 502) course been apparent in “the
real world” with this population?
3.
Counseling Theories: What main theoretical approaches are used
in your site? What have you learned from observing these approaches? Make sure
to name at least 1 theory and to check with your supervisor if you are unsure
what theory/theories are used most often at your site.
4.
Counseling Skills: What basic skills learned in COUC 505 did you observe
being used in counseling sessions? What skills did you identify easily and what
skills did you have difficulty identifying? Describe some specific elements of
the counseling process that you learned in COUC 505 and observed at your site.
What types of homework assignments were given to clients?
5.
Reflection of Action Plan: Were you successful at implementing the
action plan you proposed during the Midterm Self-Evaluation? Explain why or why
not and provide specific examples.
6.
Biblical Worldview: How does your
Christian faith influence your view of counseling? If you are in a secular site
or government agency, how does your site address the issue of religion in
counseling? If you are at a Christian site, what have you learned at your site
about addressing religious and diversity issues? For example, what is your
site’s perspective on issues such as cohabitation, abortion, homosexuality, and
other controversial issues? Based on your experiences this semester, how are
you planning to address issues of faith and diversity in counseling?
You must follow
the current APA guidelines, which include a title page, running header, the 6 headings
provided above in bold as main headings, any sub-headers deemed necessary, and
a reference page. You may use 1st person in this assignment. You must include a minimum of 5 appropriate
sources and include citations and a reference page. Appropriate sources
include textbooks from previous courses and empirically-reviewed journal
articles.

Note: Your
assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool.

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