Final Reflective Exercise
INstructions
Final Reflective Exercise – 40% HSCI- 10192 The health profession is Personal Support Worker Engaging in critical reflection about your practice and experiences helps you grow as health professional. Taking time to appreciate perspectives of your colleagues, clients and self as well as making connections with your learning is an excellent way to establish personal and professional learning goals by addressing gaps in your knowledge or simply identifying areas of interest that you may want to know more about. Reflection is a personal exploration. The videos for this activity offer you some insight into the challenges that may be faced by yourself, your colleagues and specifically – your patients with mental health struggles like delirium, depression or schizophrenia. Reflect on your own personal learnings from this course, as well as your thoughts, emotions, feelings and behaviours during this activity. When watching these videos, try and take perspective for that of a patient as well. Help write my thesis – APA format is required (title page, page numbers etc.), using external sources are not required, however if you do use another source, be sure to reference it! Some ideas to consider…How has what you learned in this course helped you understand the experiences in the videos? How might these topics influence your future practice? Did this activity make you question any previous assumptions you previously had? Stigma, shame, fear that come with mental illness. Guy Winch, Ted Talk – why we all need to practice emotional first aid https://www.ted.com/talks/guy_winch_why_we_all_need_to_practice_emotional_first_aid Elyn Saks, Ted Talk – a tale of mental illness from the inside (schizophrenia) https://www.ted.com/talks/elyn_saks_a_tale_of_mental_illness_from_the_inside Sangu Delle, Ted Talk – There is no shame in taking care of your mental health https://www.ted.com/talks/sangu_delle_there_s_no_shame_in_taking_care_of_your_mental_hea lth RUBRIC Help write my thesis – APA format (6th or 7th edition acceptable) /5 Spelling and grammar /5 Style and evidence of personal expression /15 Depth of reflective content, relation to course learning /15 *Maximum of 3 pages, double spaced – not including title page or appendices Remember, this is worth 40%, a 1 page submission is not sufficient for full marks!
