Setting and Maintaining Personal and Professional Boundaries

Self-Reflection #1

You are going to take time to reflect on the work, duties and responsibilities of a community health worker. This can be related to the activities you are or will be doing in your internship or future CHW job. (The activities I am doing are some home visitations (Hospice patients) and clerical office work in a hospice office). This requires the CHW to demonstrate sensitivity, honesty and empathy in addition to setting personal and professional boundaries. After reading and discussing the topic of Setting and Maintaining Personal and Professional Boundaries, I would like you to reflect on the meaning, impact, implication and practicality of the following concepts as it relates to the interpersonal relationships you foresee having in your internship or future work experience.

Concepts:

Objectivity, transference, countertransference, triggers, and critical reflection

To do:

• Start by defining and understanding each concept in a way that makes sense to you.
• Explain how each concept can affect the way you communicate and build relationships with others (clients, coworkers, collaborators) This requires a moment of self-reflection to identify any preconceived ideas, experiences which can be either negative or positive, lack of knowledge, skills or resources.
• Identify potential strategies that you can incorporate into your practice to help you improve your communication and interpersonal relationships. These will be practical examples that can help you to be objective in your working relationships, specific activities than can help you recognize when you, your client or colleague may be engaging in transference or countertransference and what practical things can you do to self-correct your approach to the situation and identify a technique, activity or support system that you can use to practice asses your work and the way you handle conversations or treat others.

You must write your reflection in an essay format, use Times New Roman font, font size twelve and write a minimum of five hundred words . See the scoring rubric for additional guidance on the writing process and allocation of points.

The RUBRIC are the 3 attachments below