Authentic Counselling Training
Diploma in Counselling
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Assignment B: Personal Reflection
Chronology
The text of this assignment is final only at the start of the term in which it is intended that the report be written. It is intended that this report be written during the first term of the course. The target submission date is the final teaching session of the first term of the course.
Preparation
Before putting pen to paper, you may wish to read a number of published texts (books, book chapters, monographs, journal articles) of direct relevance to personal development and self-understanding. The assignment also requires that you read three on-line documents, highlighted below in blue.
Report
Using material drawn from both your learning record and especially your personal journal, as well as material drawn from appropriate theoretical sources, write a report [2,500 words] regarding the development of your understanding about yourself, and the ways in which you have changed as a person, during the Diploma in Counselling course. You may include earlier counselling training if you wish, although this should not be a primary focus. In your report, illustrate your assertions by referring explicitly to source material (both personal and more theoretical). Where possible, try to focus your response on the processes in which you have been engaged.
1. The purpose of this section is for students to write about themselves, to reflect on their life, and then to reflect on their own writing. The person-centred approach gives prominence to the person of the counselling client in relationship with the person of the counsellor. Self-knowledge and self-understanding, therefore, have particular value.
a) Read the passage on personal history then write your own personal history [400 words].
b) Detail the stepping stones in your life that led to you enrolling on this course [400 words].
c) Reflect on the style and shape of what you have written in (a) and (b) [200 words]. To what extent is the personal history you present loosely or strictly chronological fashion? Or is what you have presented more thematic? Have you been surprised by any aspect of what you have written? What impression is given by what you have written?
2. The purpose of this section is for students to read with an awareness of their own response to what they are reading, and then to make use of the ideas in terms of themselves.
a) Read the passage on identity / differentiation.
b) Write a report [200 words] on:
i) what parts of the analysis in the passage you agreed with, and why;
ii) what parts of the analysis in the passage you disagreed with, and why.
c) Write a report [300 words] on:
i) ways in which you typically define your identity (e.g. adult, woman);
ii) ways in which you would define your identity, but only if required to do so;
iii) ways in which you would never define your identity.
3. The purpose of this section is for students to articulate some aspects of their own value system, and then to describe that value system in theoretical terms.
a) Read the case vignette then write a report [300 words] on your personal thoughts about the situation in the case vignette.
b) Read the passage on counselling ethics, then, using the passage on counselling ethics, write a report [200 words] on ethical perspectives of the situation in the case vignette.
4. Conclusion
a. by which aspects of this assignment you were most challenged,
b. with which aspects of this report you are most satisfied,
c. with which aspects of this report you are least satisfied.
Assignments for Diploma in Counselling: Essay preparation, Introduction, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L
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