They enable us to gain professional development and provide a way to identify good practices. 1.4. Describe how own values, belief systems and experiences may affect working practice? Values, belief systems and experiences may affect my working practise because if I treat people differently or force my views and opinions on to people it can cause conflict. By listening and understanding other people’s values and beliefs I can understand them and their beliefs better and improve communication with them.
• Reflecting on work activities in an important way to develop knowledge, skills and practice enables us to reach our goals, achieve a better understanding of ourselves, self-awareness, strengths and weaknesses. To be able to reflect on how individuals are doing to transfer theoretical knowledge to practice. The things that I know or what I don’t know, how to achieve some goals, achievements and where I need to improve. 1.3 Describe ways to ensure that personal attitudes or beliefs do not obstruct the quality of work • The ways to ensure that personal attitudes or beliefs do not obstruct the quality of work is to find out about individual history, attitudes, beliefs, promote empathy and be professional at work, by not posing my beliefs to others as they have a right to their own beliefs. 2.
Humans naturally form social groups and identities. These groups may have common conscious or unconscious values or morals. With this individuals are exposed and may become vulnerable to influencing factors encouraging them to conform or adopt the group values and beliefs. In the helping profession, in order for the counsellor to support the client effectively the counsellor must show and feel acceptance regardless of the issue; even if it contradicts or disagrees with their morals and values. On occasion there are self-awareness unexplored problem areas that the counsellor encounters with a client.
M2- Self awareness is the ability to know myself, my abilities, limitation and what is my personality is like. Self awareness is a very important tool to have as it helps me to be conscious of my limits and areas for further development. It is hard to do this with a friend because we may not want the friend to know who we really are. Before we can professionally help others as counsellors, we need to be self aware. This is because of the nature of the role of counsellors.
When discrimination happens it may be intentional, but it can also be because of ignorance or lack of unyou should always challenge discrimination at work, but to do it, it is essential that you can recognise anti-discrimination derstanding. It is not easy to change the views of others, but you must challenge discriminatory comments and actions. It is important to learn assertiveness strategies that can help you recognise discrimination. When
Identify sources and types of information and advice available in relation to employment responsibilities and rights (1.1.4) You will find Sources and types of information and advice available in relation to employment responsibilities and rights in your:- · Work contract · Work handbook · Policy documents · Terms and conditions · Job description All these sources of information should be found within your workplace. 5. Describe the terms and conditions of own contract of employment (2.2.1) A contract of employment sets out what your employer expects of you in your job. It also includes what your pay will be and holidays you are entitled to. It also covers job description which describes the duties and responsibilities of your post.
To do this I can ask for feedback from advisers or assessors. I also need to find ways of evaluating myself. Responding to feedback one of the ways in which I can evaluate my current state of knowledge and performance is by asking others for feedback. This is important because it can be hard to be objective about your own performance. Also I may lack skills or knowledge to be aware of what else you should be doing or other ways in which I might work.
This is because I could find it difficult to accept other people values and beliefs. Understand the importance of feedback in improving own practice 2.1 Explain how people may react and respond to receiving constructive feedback Constructive
This is because they may not want to be recorded and if they find out, you may not be able to use the information gathered. Feedback Feedback is when you give back information of what you have found from your research to those who were involved. This is because they may want to know how their input helped in the outcome of the overall research and find out if the research was a success. Vulnerable People Vulnerable people are those that need to have their feelings handled with special care. You need to address them in a way that will not upset them or make them feel unhappy.
1.4 Describe how own values belief systems and experiences may affect working practice Own values, belies systems and experiences may affect working practice as you may follow your own beliefs which are different to others and could cause conflict you may have a different religion to a service user and things you may think are fine could be very offensive to them your experiences may make it difficult if you disagree with work policies and procedures provided. 2.1 Explain how people may react and respond to receiving constructive feedback People may react in different ways to constructive feedback, some people may take it on board and use it to improve better practice where as other may take offence and feel they are being