Critical Incident Journal and Reflective Summary

Critical Incident Journal and Reflective
Summary
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Reflection on learning from seminars and placement with special needs or people or mental
health............................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
Reflection can be defined as a opinion that is being formed or made after careful thought
and experience (Tiessen, 2018). In this study I am going to share my feelings and discuss my
experience when I was placed for working with people of mental health or special needs. This
study will discuss requirement of skills for providing qualitative services to such people such as
communication, empathy, record keeping, ethics and others. I will reflect on my own skills in
order to know as on which skills I need to focus and work on for improving them in order to
perform my placement role in an effective manner. It will further reflect on my experience of
placement as how I approached to company, which mode of communication helped me out and
my interview experience.
MAIN BODY
Reflection on learning from seminars and placement with special needs or people or mental
health
Description: With the help of reflective model I want to share my experience and describe
all events and situations that happened with me and skills that I learned from all those situations.
While studying in university about working for people who are in need and not able to perform
their own functions in an effective manner because of mental illness, I learned several things. I
found that learning as a student is one of the best phase in everyone’s life because here, we only
focus on learning new things and focus on developing own skills and knowledge by which they
can get employment opportunity in our desired field (Cetrano and et.al., 2017). Same thing
happened with me as while studying in university, I learned about importance of empathy and
ways of dealing with people who requires our help and need. I was placed for working with
special needs of people or working with people of mental health. I learned several new things
from both university as a student and from placement as a social worker. I believe that working
as a social worker and helping out to people with special needs is one of the best role or
employment. It helps us out in increasing several skills and knowledge.
Feeling: Here I want to share my feelings that I felt from my experience of process of
placement with special needs or people with mental health as well as skills that I learned while
studying in university. As a student I learned the importance of communication and it is the
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