Practical Skills Demonstration Evaluation

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This document is my reflection on my performance during the practical skills demonstration on Friday, 18 January 2013. My modality is naturopathy, and my client (“Jane”) presented with fatigue, poor diet and stress. Prior to the consultation, I practiced several times on my class mates and my family, and made sure I had memorised the checklist (Endeavour College of Natural Health (“Endeavour”), 2012), and thought of some example questions I could ask/things I could say, so I could address each item as I was going through the demonstration. I felt that I covered all the points in the checklist (Endeavour, 2012) during the presentation. I initiated our meeting, explored the issue, focused on the goals and wrapped up the session effectively. However I do have a way to go in order to be considered to do this ‘expertly’. I employed non-verbal skills such as matching how Jane was sitting and maintaining appropriate amount of eye contact. I used verbal and humanistic skills such as using encouragers, paraphrasing (summarising back to her the three key issues she had outlined and why she believes they had occurred) and conveying empathy (being understanding that the busy lifestyle and heavy workload of working, studying and home life would be very stressful). (Endeavour, 2012) The areas I believe I did well related to; (1) exploring the problem with different types of questions and (2) making the client feel comfortable by being warm, respectful, empathetic, actively listening and attending to her words. Areas in which I believe I could improve is; (1) not talking so fast and (2) becoming more comfortable with each step of how to run a consultation so I don’t have to be distracted by trying to remember if I have addressed each item in the checklist (Endeavour, 2012). This practical skills demonstration was valuable to me in terms of knowing how to conduct

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