Self Reflection Report: Health and Human Science Development Analysis

This report delves into the critical aspects of self-reflection and self-presentation within the context of health and human science, focusing on a student's journey towards career development. It explores the significance of essential skills and knowledge for personal, academic, and professional advancement, emphasizing the role of self-assessment in identifying strengths and weaknesses. The report highlights the effective use of targets and goals for structured development and provides a detailed SWOT analysis to evaluate strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Furthermore, it incorporates the Gibbs model of reflection, offering a structured approach to learning from experiences and planning future actions to enhance skills, particularly in areas like communication and interpersonal abilities. The report's conclusion underscores the importance of continuous self-improvement and the development of both hard and soft skills for success in the health and human science field.

Self Reflection and Self
Presentation

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................1
Skills and knowledge which are important for personal, academic and career development.....1
Importance of self assessment for development of skills and knowledge..................................1
Use of targets and goals for personal and professional development.........................................2
SWOT analysis for future academic, personal and professional development...........................3
Reflection of skills and knowledge.............................................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Self reflection is defined as a time spent in analysing and determining own characters and
beliefs. Self reflection is said to be solution to enhance and enrich an individual and provide a
deeper and vast meaning to its life. Human self reflection is referred as a capacity of individuals
to exercise and examine introspection to attempt to learn about their fundamental nature and
essence. While self presentation is referred as how people attempt their skills and themselves to
control or shape how others view them(Djafarova and Trofimenko, 2019) . It involves expressing
oneself and behaving in various ways which creates a desired impression. Self presentation is
part of wide set of behaviours that is also known as impression management. This report is based
on self reflections and self presentation skills of an individual student who is looking to build its
career in health and human science. This report includes skills and knowledge that are important
for personal, academic and career development, importance of self assessment for development
of skills and knowledge, use of targets and goals for personal and professional development,
SWOT analysis for future academic, personal and professional development along with its
conclusion.
MAIN BODY
Skills and knowledge which are important for personal, academic and career development.
Skills generally refers to imply something practical and it says about applications of
theoretical information in practice in workplace and knowledge refers to implementation of
something theoretical that says about information about a given topic that an individual learn
from books, newspapers, encyclopedias and magazines(Leary, 2019). In relation with health and
human science it provides a wide knowledge of various factors that affects people's health and
systems in place to manage issues. There are various challenges that arises in healthcare and
effects of an ageing population, obesity and its implications that could cause huge global threat
of antibiotic resistance.
Importance of self assessment for development of skills and knowledge.
It is important to have and keep self assessment for development of skills and knowledge
of individual student(Walker, 2019). As self assessment provides an insight into student's true
comprehension that can help in identifying and determining and gaps in students knowledge. It
helps in encouraging students to examine their own learning and levels of understandings. It is
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necessary to develop self assessment for developing skills and knowledge in health and health
science as:
It can influence various health student's behaviours as to increase compliance with
standards.
Self assessment helps in serving as an aid in professional development in clarifying areas
for improvement and enhancing self esteem and developing self awareness (Arpaci, Baloğlu and
Kesici, 2018).
It helps students in selecting their jobs or educational programme which are best suited
for them.
Self assessment helps in providing direction for training as once student is able to identify
strengths and weaknesses rights training could be used and developed to enhance its personal as
well as professional skills.
Self assessment helps in providing student to write and designs resumes and cover letters
that are specific about abilities, potential and capabilities which highlights special qualities. As
this makes and designs a cover letter a stand out among other students.
Use of targets and goals for personal and professional development.
There are various uses of targets and goals for personal and professional development
that leads to build skills and knowledge of student. Importance of targets and goals that helps in
building personal development in area of health and human science are as follows:
It helps in building and improving professional relationships: As working in corporates
and carrying out a job, student can spend lot of time with their colleagues so its is necessary to
build good relationships with them to enhance their goals and knowledge.
Improve time management skills: Throughout a student's financial career there are
various deadlines and competing tasks which are to faced to maintain its survival. So in order to
deal with these situations effective time management skills are required to to deal with different
uncertainties(Cai and Cai, 2020). Effective time management skills helps in increasing
productivity and efficiency of student in health and human science.
Defining own success: Setting goals for personal and professional development could
helps gaining success. As once student could uncover its values and aims, it will helps in
recognizing that if they try to chase everyone's idea of what success is, it will help in gaining
success of individual.
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Develop a growth mindset: Students who have a growth mindset and believe that they
could continue to develop and design their skills and knowledge throughout their life could
results in achieving more than those with a fixed mindset and who believes that they are born
with their abilities can results in developing success in their specialised area which is health and
human science(Tifentale and Manovich, 2018) .
SWOT analysis for future academic, personal and professional development.
SWOT analysis helps in identifying and determining strengths, weaknesses, opportunities
and threats of a student. There are various skills and knowledge on which SWOT analysis of
student can be performed. SWOT analysis of student on basis of academic skills, learning and
effectiveness, identification of resources, learning styles, personal and professional development
planning and self awareness are as follows:
Strengths basically refers to positive points of an individual that helps in dealing with
uncertainties(Dennis, 2018). A student of health and human science has strengths of
communication skills, it helps in building strong work ethic, teamwork skills, by having a proper
knowledge and skills about health and human science helps in developing problem solving skills
as these skills helps in solving various problems in health initiative that includes budgeting,
operations and customer satisfaction, having a flexibility and adaptability towards situations and
environment helps in dealing with constant change in public health as by working proactively to
keep track Ito current technologies leads to have flexibility and adaptability in student's
behaviours.
Weaknesses are various areas of improvements. It simply states components and
elements that a student lacks in. some of weaknesses of academic and learning skills in health
and human science are of hard skills as hard skills are job specific abilities which are easily
quantifiable(MacLeod and McArthur, 2019) . These skills are developed from schools and other
forms of training. Another weaknesses in student's academic skills will be of interpersonal skills
as this includes confrontation, public speaking and being too sensitive nature that can affect
professional development of a student. Another weaknesses in academic and learning skills that
student faces is of soft skills that includes creativity, organisation and patience that determines
and shows student's effectiveness and efficiency.
Opportunities refers to various chances and advantages that can be adapted by student in
order to build their development and enhancing skills. In relation with health and human science
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various opportunities that can be grabbed by a student is of academic discourse which are skills
for communicating effectively in debates, discussions and presentation on various health issues
and healthcare matters. An individual can write and have its comprehension to develop and build
an understanding of academic texts and lectures in health and human science that can results in
developing and building personal and as well as professional skills of student.
Threats refers to situations that can provide harm to an individual as it affects skills. In
relation of health and human science there are that some times it can affect in effectiveness and
efficiency of student as sometimes situations can be arise that can lack in having specific skills
which results in suffering loss of student's behaviour and nature(Hagan, Callison and Fox, 2020)
. As nowadays interpersonal skills are most valuable and demanding aspect in gaining job
opportunities so is lacking in interpersonal and communication skills can affect effectiveness and
efficiency.
According to SWOT analysis which is explained above from this professional
development plan can be designed in which various strategies and ways can be identified and
implemented and provide have training in which it lack in(Sanders and Isbell, 2018) . according
to that student can focus on building its communication and interpersonal skills so that its skills
and knowledge can be enhanced as a view of personal as well as in professional development,. In
relation with health and human science it is essential to have basic and through knowledge about
health care so that its professional career can be enhanced more.
Reflection of skills and knowledge.
According to Gibbs model of reflection, it provides structure to learning from
experiences. There are five elements which are included in the reflection model and these are
description , feelings, evaluation, conclusion and action. This model is helpful for people
because they learn from situations that they experience in their daily life. It is further been
explained as below:- Description: - It means to define whole situation in detail. With reference to above swot
analysis I have evaluated that there were many strengths while dealing with health as well
as human science. I have learned that there were effective communication skills and team
work skills which was helpful in solving all kind of problems whether in context with
health or in relation to human science. I have also learned by my weaknesses that due to
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lack of interpersonal skills in students like public speaking so to improve such skills I
started participating in discussions and debates in order to improve my overall skills. Feelings: - It refers to overall thoughts and experience felt during situations. From the
above analysis my experience was very good and positive as I have learned how to deal
with situations in terms of health and human science. As, my strengths were very helpful
to solve all kind of problems that occurred. I experienced some kind of threat which was
harmful to me as it was affecting my skills. Due to lack of soft skills, my efficiency was
not good enough so I took help of my communication as well as effective team work
skills to deal with those problems. I also experienced and faced certain opportunities so I
didn't ignored it and accepted all the opportunities which was beneficial for me. Evaluation: - It means to analyse what was positive and negative in that situation. From
the above analysis, I have evaluated that I faced both positive and negative situation. In
context with positive situation, as my strengths was very helpful in both health and
human science. I had proper knowledge of both due to which I was flexible enough to
deal with changed technologies also. But due to certain weaknesses like lack of creativity
various negative situations also got arise. So, I learned that with the help of specific
strengths we can deal with certain kind of weaknesses. Conclusion: - It means to think about whole situation again and share the experience.
From the above analysis, my experience was good but to improve in a better way I need
to develop certain other skills also so that same problems don't arise in future. I will
improve my soft skills as well as public speaking skills which is very important for
student so I need to develop that.
 Action: - It means to take some actions in order to deal with similar situations. As my
weakness was that I was not much effective in public speaking so now to improve I will
take more part in debates so my weakness can turn into my strength.
CONCLUSION
From above it has been concluded that self reflection and self behaviours are stated as a
important and essential component of an individual that enhances its personal and as well as
professional growth. Self reflection helps in determining own behaviour and beliefs whereas self
presentation is refers to expressing themselves that reflects their behaviours and skills. This
report explains and provide a brief idea about skills and knowledge in health and human science
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and according to that importance of self assessment is briefly explained along with its SWOT
analysis which explains strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of individual in relation
with its skills and informations that enhances its personal and professional development.
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