Assignment Task

Description

Aim: To engage in critical self-reflection within a cultural intentionality framework.

Critical self-reflection is an important component of professional development used by many health care professionals, including psychologists. It can bring awareness to our beliefs, emotions and behaviours that influence our decision making. Critical self-reflection is an important skill and should be built early in a therapist`s career, so this assessment task has been designed with this ethos in mind.

The aim of this assessment will be to focus on the use of critical self-reflection to better understand how your perceptions, beliefs, knowledge and interactions with people may influence your professional practice. The assessment is to help build your capacity to engage in i) cultural intentionality and (ii) reflective practice.

Assessment task 4 will focus on your ability to reflect the worldviews that you possess or consider important and how these will influence the development of therapeutic alliance.

Self-reflection

In this assessment task, you will reflect on the impact your worldview, beliefs formed over your lifespan, cultural beliefs and norms (including those of your immediate community and family), situational circumstances, and any other beliefs and emotions that may influence the development of a therapeutic relationship with a diversity of clients.

Use the prompts below to construct a reflective written narrative. You may choose to integrate your responses to the prompts.

As this is reflective writing you may use first-person and references are not required in this task. However, as this is academic writing, ensure you adhere to the principles of academic writing as you would in any other assessment (e.g., writing in full sentences, having structure in your paragraphs and your overall assessment)

Identify factor(s) (including those related to your worldview, knowledge, experience, beliefs, values and identity) that has or may influence how you work with clients. Your knowledge may include that which you have learnt during this subject (e.g., cultural intentionality, therapeutic approaches etc.)

Articulate and evaluate how the above factor(s) may manifest and impact your work with a diverse range of clients (e.g., those who are neurodiverse, different SES, ethnicity etc.). Remember to provide specific details such as who, what, where, when and why.