Reflective Practice, Principles and Values in Health and Social Care

This report provides a comprehensive overview of reflective practice within the context of health and social care. It begins with a definition of reflection and its purposes, emphasizing its importance in enhancing professional development and improving service user outcomes. The report explores the benefits of reflective practice, highlighting its role in addressing emotional challenges and uncertainties faced by healthcare professionals. It then delves into the negative consequences of poor practice and the impact of reflective practice on both service users and practitioners. A case study is presented to illustrate the application of reflective models, including Gibbs' Reflective Cycle, Johns' Model, Kolb's Model, Rolfe's Model, and Schön's Reflection in action/Reflection on action. The report also examines the Practice Themes, specifically focusing on Law, Regulation and Ethical Practice, Professional values, attitudes and behavior, Health, safety and safeguarding, Valuing and promoting diversity, Promoting physical and mental health, and Applied Mathematics. The report concludes with a discussion on how these themes can be used to underpin reflection in learning and practice, emphasizing the importance of continuous improvement and ethical conduct in health and social care.

Demonstrating Professional Principles and Values
in Health and Social Care Practice

Definition of reflection
Reflection is a ongoing process which is vital to generate own idea, through or
viewpoint on basis of self work done and activity either in past or present.
Also, reflection is valuable to get to know about self thought process and
likelihood to persist the self-evaluation on time to time basis. With help of
reflection, person is about to get what he/she has done in past related to own
experiences/ expertise

The purposes of reflection in health and social care
Reflection as part of the health or social care is vital for challenging or
improving long term practices. It helps to provide healthcare worker's to deal
with kind of sensitive issues they are expected to be experiences. Due to the
reflection, health & social care worker is expected to get knowledge about
their weakness or strength while doing practices in case of treating or care
people.

The benefits of reflection in health and social care
Reflective practices is necessary is health and social care sector as this job
carries high level of an emotional cost and difficulties and uncertainties that
practitioner's encounter in their daily basis. In context of health or social care,
reflection is getting knowledge/experience of a practice done for treating and
caring people from any physical problem or issues. This is one of the formal
practices, in which focus is on identifying any kind of critical situation and
checks out an experiences in context of health and social care at a bigger
instances.

The importance to adopt and apply reflective practice in
health and social care
Reflective practices is defined as “capacity to reflect upon any action or
experience, so as to engage into the process of continuous learning.
This is helps to give reflective introduction to the reflective practices
and also how its important or necessary to be in health or social care.

The impact of reflective practice on own personal and
professional development
Skills, knowledge and information is one of the supportive belt for the every
practitioner in order to work effectively and properly. Reflective practice is
used to understands current skill and traits into the professional health care
and how they works out with right abilities or exposure, if in case tackling
any work based situation.

Negative consequences of poor practice for personal and
professional development
In health and social care, poor practice has played one of the critical role
into personal and professional development. Poor practices such as failure
to complete the defined task of care, being unfair with service taker, fraud
or failures to poor practices are some of the poor practices which is not any
beneficial or being ethical for health visitor.

The impact of reflective practice on the service users and
issues connected with ineffective practice
Positive impact: Reflective practice is useful to makes out scope for changes into health
service and increasing performance of manpower who work in that field.
Negative impact: Here, impact is lack of understanding of the personnel and chances of
rising of the conflicts.

Case study example
This case study is based on family with a child who is obese. On past experience, I plan to
propose a diet, a food diary and a schedule of visits. You visit, talk to mum, and agree your
plan.One week later... second visit…
Nothing’s happened. No change. Very disappointing... frustrating

Describe tools and models for reflection
Tools:
Gibbs - Reflective Cycle (1988)
Rolfe's Model of reflection
Johns’ Model of reflection (1994)
Schön’s (1991) Reflection in action/Reflection on action
Kolb’s Model of reflective cycle
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Models for reflection
Reflective practice is the ability to reflect on one's actions so as to engage in a process of
continuous learning.

Gibbs - Reflective Cycle (1988)
Step 1 Description: This is a primary stage of this reflective cycle.
In given case study, a baby is being supervisor who was suffering
with obese (fat related issues).
Step 2 Feelings: My feeling is good and existed to solve problem of
that child. I feels of being responsible to responsibility given to me.
Step 3 Evaluation: During the first attempt, nothing goes well and
proposed diet plan has failed to assist family or other carer of the
child.