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Jul 24, 2024 · Self-awareness is a key component of effective health and social care practice. It enables professionals to understand their strengths, weaknesses, emotions, and biases. This understanding improves communication, decision-making, and client relationships. Health and social care professionals can develop self-awareness through reflective ...
- The Role of Self-Awareness and Reflection in Social Care Practice
- The role of self-awareness and reflection in social care practice
- Participants
- Procedure
- Ethics
- Findings and Discussion
- Participants’ understanding of self-awareness and reflection
- Engaging in reflective practice
- Factors that support/impede reflection
- Conclusion
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Aoife Greene This study examined social care workers’ understanding of self-awareness and reflection, the impact of reflection on their practice, and the factors which support and/or impede reflection in their practice. Given the limited evidence base in general on the use of reflection in social care practice, this qualitative study contributes to...
The sample group was purposively chosen with the eligibility criteria of participants having a degree in social care and at least three years work experience in social care. These criteria were used to ensure that participants had the opportunity to learn about self- awareness and reflection and to practise it in the workplace. The participants wer...
To recruit the participants from the course a short presentation on the study was given to the class group as well as email being sent to the class with an information sheet and consent letter attached. Once the volunteers made contact, arrangements were made as to the time and place that suited the participants in order to conduct the interviews....
The research proposal was approved by the ethics committee of the third level institute in which Master’s degree was being undertaken. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. Some of the sample group were classmates of the researcher and as such prospective participants may have found it difficult to say ‘no’ to a fellow classmate who ...
The data were analysed in relation to the topics relevant to the objective of the study in exploring social care workers understanding and use of self-awareness and reflection in their practice with a number of themes identified. This article reports on three main themes: participants understanding of self-awareness and reflection, how the particip...
Participants had a general understanding of self-awareness and reflection as well as its relevance to their practice as social care workers. Almost half of the participants could name models of reflection such as Schön’s reflecting-on-action and reflecting-in action, Kolb’s learning cycle and Gibbs’s reflective cycle. However they could not provide...
Critical incident reports were found to be one of the most common tools used in order to reflect. These critical incident reports were provided by the participants’ organisations. The participants reported that at the end of the critical incident report there was a section which encouraged practitioners to reflect on an incident by describing it, n...
While discussing factors that support and/or impede reflection, the participants’ responses fluctuated between hypothetical assumptions and actual experiences. When they spoke about the factors that supported their reflection, the participants spoke about hypothetical supports for the practitioner in general. It appeared that the participants had n...
The findings of this study suggest that while social care practitioners generally understand the concepts of self-awareness and reflection, they tend not to reflect constructively unless they are reporting on a critical incident. Furthermore, while all participants identified reflection and self-awareness as important factors in promoting client-ce...
- Aoife Greene
- 2014
Feb 21, 2024 · The Foundation of Self-Awareness in Social Work. Self-awareness is a fundamental aspect of psychology and the key to determining your motivations. Generally, it’s understood as how an individual understands their own character, feelings, and desires. 1 Some definitions break it down even further and explain self-awareness as how one perceives ...
The Importance of Self-Awareness in Building Cultural Competency. Social work educators, in developing teaching models for culturally competent social work practice, have emphasized the important role of self-awareness development in preparing culturally responsive social workers (Colvin-Burque, Zugazaga, & Davis-Maye, 2007; Messinger, 2004).
- Nalini J. Negi, Kimberly A. Bender, Rich Furman, Dawnovise N. Fowler, Julia Clark Prickett
- 2010
In order to be in a position of helping others, one must be ready to take great responsibility in a variety of challenging situations. In the social work field, there are many measurable ways to build the competence required to begin working with clients, but one of the most important qualities a social worker must have cannot be quantified: self awareness, which is developed through your own ...
The ability to identify and draw on sources of support. Persistence in the face of challenges, setbacks and adversity. A sense of purpose and the ability to derive a sense of meaning from difficulties and challenges. The ability to learn from experience. An orientation towards the future.
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Sep 15, 2009 · This paper discusses the applications of self-awareness to all levels of clinical practice, and the urgency for its development in social work students; self-reflectiveness builds clinical competence, can prevent boundary violations and burnout, and offers protection against client violence. It is a basic cornerstone for the development of the ...
