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Stephanie Badio

Dr. Dr. Steinbeigle

Reflection

I would like to think I have several personal strengths. When it comes to counseling, I think counseling others and being an advocate for them is a task to I enjoy taking part in because they aren’t able to do so for themselves. I enjoy helping a client feeling good confident about them themselves and that is one of my personal strength that I had to experience my myself. I had to not have anyone when needed someone to talk to and that pushed me to be that someone for someone else. I believe that my personal strength is the clinical assessment part. I enjoy getting to know each client to be able to interact and accommodate better and provide them the service they deserve.

In order to promote for field site by preparing for the site and making sure as a candidate to study the field site of choice mission statement. Knowing the mission statement does not only help you but also help you get when in the field what to expect, if they are following the guidelines or not. The candidate should also inform the party in charge of their experience if they have any. The candidate should also dress accordingly to show others when in authority. In this course we had the pleasure of completing two tasks. The first task was to write a 15-page paper on an existing case of an individual who presented at substance use and physical abuse. However, while writing each draft I found it interesting how much information I was finding each time I was writing about a different topic despite the case study going into depth. The next part of assignment was working with a partner on exercising meso counseling skills. During this assignment both students were required to take turn to talk about the case study taking turn being a counselor and the client via bongo. I was very impressed by the creativity. working with a partner helped me realized some on my weakness and improvements. While working as a group I realized I was a good team player, punctual, and great at communication skills.

During these few weeks I was able to learn different style of assessment and the purpose of assessment. Assessment is very important when counseling others because it’s the first interaction with the client and some clients could find it uncomfortable. Some clients might feel uncomfortable because it might be their first time in counseling or just afraid of being judged. This course helped me improve in different areas such as, assessment, cultural, bias, and decision making. All these listed are important because during session its crucial to keep them in mind in order to provide the client with the best service. Lastly, we also learned to apply ACA guidelines which is the best way for counselors to find all things applied to counseling when counseling others.