The reflective journal is a tool for cultivating your personal-professional self and should focus on the competencies and knowledge you are learning in your field practicum

The reflective journal is a tool for cultivating your personal-professional self and should focus on the competencies and knowledge you are learning in your field practicum (about yourself, others, social problems, helping relationships, social change &/or social work practice). Its contents should include the following:

Reflective Journal Requirements:

1) Journals must demonstrate a reflective stance drawing from at least three of the five:

a. Reflections on, and reactions to, both the content and process of our seminar sessions (drawing implications for your developing personal-professional self and future social work practice);

b. Reflections on how you are seeing yourself as a developing social worker;

c. Reflections on your understanding of your personal values and the values and ethics of our profession;

d. Reflections on the parallel processes you are experiencing with supervision and practice;

e. Reflections on how you are integrating of content and readings from all social work courses and their relationship to field practicum experiences.

2) Show relevance to practice behaviors and competencies and progress/obstacles in achieving the objectives Reflections on your development towards achieving practice behavior competence (e.g. areas of tension and challenges, as well as ah ha moments and discussion about how you are developing in your practice knowledge and skills).

3) Journals will be assessed based on the quality of writing, including organization, clarity, sentence structure, spelling, grammar etc. Journals require a minimum of two references from the professional literature such as social work journals or textbooks using appropriate APA format

Self-Assessment of Journals

I believe self-evaluation and assessment is valuable tool to support equity in learning. You will be asked to self-assess the quality of your work on these journals. When journals are submitted, you will also be required to submit a self-assessment using the rubric provided in this syllabus. Both a point value and supporting comments are required for each area of the rubric. I will still be providing my own feedback and numeric rating, and where our numeric values differ, I will average the two in calculating the total grade for the assignment. Rubric must be completed before the assignment will be assessed by instructor. Highlighted areas of the rubric are the ones that student completes.

below are the two articles for this assignment.

.http://www.socialworker.com/feature-articles/ethic…

Rollins, W. (2020). Social Worker–Client Relationships: Social Worker Perspectives. Australian Social Work, 73(4), 395–407. https://doi-org.ezproxy.naz.edu/10.1080/0312407X.2019.1669687