22 Explain why feedback is an essential component of personal development. Use examples to illustrate your answer. (AC 2.2)

22 Explain why feedback is an essential component of personal development. Use examples to illustrate your answer. (AC 2.2)

Obtained feedback changes the perspective and helps to reflect on circumstances from a different angle. All human beings are prone to biases. Feedback has a significant role in changing perspective and helps to discover a different point of view. Feedback and reflection may lead to improve workshops. Johari Window exercise provide a interesting insight into perception how we see our self and how see us others. This kind of tool may be use to change perspective and help to understand how potentially bias we are.

In general positive feedback given lead to rise confidence in our abilities. If feedback is negative it may rise our awareness about gap in our skills. Therefore, those blind spots may be addressed. Not pleasant feedback definitely will address areas that need development.

Feedback may be served not exclusively by customers it may be done by supervision. On each single stage of interaction feedback should be treat as signage and influence further actions.

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12a Explain how feedback and guidance can improve the use of counselling skills. (AC 7.2)

Explain how feedback and guidance can improve the use of counselling skills.

Feedback:

Is process when our customer or tutor provide validation about our skills. Feedback has essential role in learning process and may indicate area should be improve. Therefore, it is a background to further changes. Feedback play role of sinage post and trigger consoler to introduce changes and area to improve. Feedback may reveal gap in counselling skills thus external not biased opinion should be taken into consideration. It is absolutely crucial for counselling students to reflect upon obtained feedback.

12b Guidance:

Counselling student may be guided in many way. Experienced counsellor may provide professional guidance to student. However self-reflection it may also by used as a guidance constrain.

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