Through reflective practice, you will evaluate your own emotional intelligence as defined as the capacity to recognize one’s own feelings as well as others and one’s ability to assess and manage those feelings. The focus of these exercises is to investigate a deeper understanding of self, your triggers, the types of cases you invest emotionally more in and get overly involved with and those you’d rather refer to someone else. The idea is to be able to personally observe and analyze your own behaviors/thoughts/decisions and how those impact both you and your clients.
Video Journal #5 Prompt
Address the following items:
Briefly discuss a client encounter you had this week and note the therapy modality used and what the diagnosis was.
Now consider how motivational interviewing would have benefited the client.
Describe your comfort level with motivational interviewing and how you planned to incorporate this into clinical practice on a regular basis.