Professional Strengths
1. What personal & professional strengths do you have that you can use and build on to create helping relationships with your clients? In thinking about my professional and personal strengths, I feel that my ability to be genuine and empathetic with people regardless of the situation at hand is one of my greatest strengths. Along with this, I believe that my non-judgmental approach with people allows me to quickly build rapport which in turn allows me to further establish a helping relationship where others are willing to work with me. In attrition, I also feel that my ability to communicate both verbally and non-verbally, and more importantly to listen without distractions allows me to build trust that I can utilize to further establish
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In being limited in my confidence, I feel that I am sometimes hesitant to fully engage with others in certain situations which limits my ability to form/ further a helping relationship. In addition, I feel that there are more skills to learn in this program and throughout life, which will better allow me to interact and engage with others at a higher level. What are you still working on? I am currently working on being more confident in displaying my abilities, as well as building upon my knowledge base through higher education. Some of what I feel I am missing cannot be learned in the class or any one situation, but will come throughout time as I continue working with other in helping relationships.
4. How can you transform these limitations into strengths in your work?
By being able to recognize what I feel is a vulnerability and a limitation of myself is a strength of its own. I feel that by sharing this and working on developing a stronger and more realistic view of myself is not only a strength, but an opportunity that allows me to look deep within myself to make the needed changes to be a better version of who I currently am. In addition, I feel that any experience we gain in our lives is a lesson that better enables us to work with others with a realistic understanding.
5. What is the difference between transference and
In being limited in my confidence, I feel that I am sometimes hesitant to fully engage with others in certain situations which limits my ability to form/ further a helping relationship. In addition, I feel that there are more skills to learn in this program and throughout life, which will better allow me to interact and engage with others at a higher level. What are you still working on? I am currently working on being more confident in displaying my abilities, as well as building upon my knowledge base through higher education. Some of what I feel I am missing cannot be learned in the class or any one situation, but will come throughout time as I continue working with other in helping relationships.
4. How can you transform these limitations into strengths in your work?
By being able to recognize what I feel is a vulnerability and a limitation of myself is a strength of its own. I feel that by sharing this and working on developing a stronger and more realistic view of myself is not only a strength, but an opportunity that allows me to look deep within myself to make the needed changes to be a better version of who I currently am. In addition, I feel that any experience we gain in our lives is a lesson that better enables us to work with others with a realistic understanding.
5. What is the difference between transference and