What are some of the personal counselling values you bring to this work?Are there particular theories that align well with those values?
Learning Conclusion (Required for Portfolio)
Review your portfolio (i.e., read through it) and reflect on your learning across the semester, including a consideration of how your understanding of counselling theories has changed and developed since the beginning of the course.
Write 2-3 pages,double spaced, using the following questions as a guide (you do not need to answer all of them.Use them to develop a discussion that shows meaningful reflection about your own development in this course):
What particular counselling theories and/or schools (e.g., psychodynamic, existential-humanistic, cognitive behavioural, constructivist) resonate with you and why?
What are some of the personal counselling values you bring to this work?Are there particular theories that align well with those values?
What are some of the basic assumptions you have about people and what theoretical approach is the closest match to these assumptions?
What was a meaningful topic, reading, discussion, or activity for you in this course and why?
What do you know now that you didn’t know before this course? About the field of counselling? About yourself?
What surprised you about the course that you weren’t expecting (relating to the field of counselling and/or your learning experiences in this course)?
In what ways has your thinking and perspectives changed as a result of this class?
What will you change in your own life and work as a result of your experience in this course and this portfolio?
What were some of your most challenging moments in this course/doing this portfolio and what made them so?
What were some of the most challenging topics/discussions and what made them so?
What were your most interesting discoveries in this course?
What did you learn about yourself?
What questions and curiosities are you leaving this course with that you would like to continue to pursue and explore?
What is something about your learning this semester that you are proud of?
