Question

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 potentially might 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 0 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. a) What strengths are you bringing to the counseling process? b) How have you come to develop these strengths? c) In what circumstances have you observed that you have these strengths? d) What feedback, if any, have you gotten from others about them? e) What makes you think they will serve you well in the counseling process? 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 difficuities, 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 APA format. (But keep in mind this paper is really about you, and these references are just a small component. DO NOT WRITE A PAPER ABOUT THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GOOD 0 COUNSELORS.)

Answer 1

Personal awareness is a self knowledge in which the content of one's consciousness..It is important for optimal during life activity to adopt the person behavior with different situation as per the ability it prevent risks and harmful behavior..As a health counselor we need to be aware of values,beliefs to approach culturally diverse clients..It is a multicultural competence, we must know to differentiate the self lived experience and client's lived experience..It provide positive approach to be more nonjudgemental for clients and for better understanding their issues..Personal awareness during counseling help for more positive emotion towards clients and it has negative consequences in a counselling session..sometimes personal awareness can actually be distracting to counselling patients and harmful to the session..Personal awareness make negative consequence sometimes with self-focused attention on counselling..
a, It has positive mindset,which promote best quality,improve resilience and it make worldwide more positive..When there is positive attitude it help our expectations of ourselves and others become more reasonable..Our personal history of trauma, stress and pain can help to understand other situations to deal with tough situations in other areas of out life..
b, When we work with various people with disciplines solution focused therapy with positive qualities and positive thinking than negative thinking can help fulfill the strength of counseling..It helps to work with people to see them as a individual..mindfulness is consider self-awareness,it connect the people with useful counselling..Cultivate personal awareness to maximize effectiveness of our counselling sessions..
c, In positive mindset i can realize our strength when there is positive attitude it help our expectations to fulfill with other health issues like depression,anxiety.. it help build confidence among them and reduce the stress in this situation..
d, Sometimes doctors will become a patient with others life experience..personal awareness is important human trait can get benefit oneself and their social relations..client self-awareness in counselling like their mental illness and brain diseases can affect personal awareness in health counselling..It should be investigated before counselling..personal-awareness empathy,flexibility can make a person as a good health counselor..client own lived experience can make counselor to be more nonjudgemental..
e, Good communication skills, acceptance(being nonjudgemental),empathy,problem solving skills,flexibility,personal awareness,multicultural competency strategy can recognize the one as a good counselor..it make the counselling process more success..
Potential problem with counselling when there is self-focused attention they show that how anxious the counselor is in handling some patient mental health issues like depression, anxiety, and post traumatic illness etc..It make the client to think that the counselor is not paying attention to them.To address the issues problem solving skills and rapport building skills helps to identify the client behavior fast and interpersonal skills help to develop strong relationship..it make trust and personal awareness can help identify psychological needs and desires when patient handling patient with mental illness..this ability can prevent the issues from affecting with those clients with specific illness..