Professional reflection and self care
The purpose of this academic essay is to:
Describe the principles and processes for developing self-awareness in the counselling profession. Principles can include models, theories and frameworks that help inform and guide self-reflective practice and counselling profession self-awareness.
Identify the connections between self-awareness and ethically sustainable mental health and wellness in the , as specified by your professional association.
Process:
Write an essay on developing personal and professional self-awareness in counselling. In the essay, students are to describe how and why the development of self-awareness fosters ethically sustainable mental health and wellness in the counselling professional.
Throughout the essay, students are required to provide examples of how they can develop self-awareness in the counselling profession to support their mental health and wellness as a student counsellor, and support their ideas with relevant academic sources of literature. Those sources should be referenced, using APA 7th