1. Part one-1/2 page: (Using 1st person, example: I had a conversation with my mother and I what I experienced at first was…) As the daughter, my mother particularly talked to me as casual as she usually does. She usually conversed with me with much assurance that she has higher level of understanding than me. She even showed how much authority she has over me as my mother. Likely, such process has made me realize that I am viewed by my mother as someone much lesser than she is. In this manner, she made it certain that she keeps her authority over me during the conversation.
However, during the part where I change the conversation approach into a more medical manner as a social worker, she began to change her tone and began to serve opinionated ideas as I give her different questions that naturally turned the conversation much equal leveled in terms of authority in knowledge and wisdom about the raised issues. Talking with my mother in this manner has made the talk much easier to deal with as the level of authority has been well fixed as to the measurement of the knowledge that both parties have about the matter discussed.
This conversation has made me more aware of where I should stand in terms of talking with others. Being casual could set the interest of the conversant in the issue to be discussed later on while the medical approach in the talk makes the conversation more professional and practical for counseling as the conversation progresses towards the completion of the counseling process of the talk. 2. Part Two-1/2 page: (Continue using 1st person, example: As I maintained my weekly abstinence journal of my cognitive and affective reactions to the experience of not interrupting …)
Interruption is a particular weakness that most social workers should avoid. This is particularly specific in terms of serving as counselors to drug and alcohol addicts. In keeping a journal of not interrupting for three months has taught me that it is indeed beneficial for both the patient or the person treated with the rehabilitation from drug and alcohol addiction as well as for the social worker working with the individual. Not interrupting during conversation and relaying section of the process makes it easier for both parties to gain understanding of the values that each individual wants to impart during the occurrence of the process.
Most of the time, as I write down the progress of my application of not interrupting to others while they relay their own stories, I learned that being able to hear the different elements contributing to the problem of a consulting individual makes it much easier for me to provide necessary solutions to the situation. The practicality of the counseling becomes more efficient and applicable enough to change the being of an individual wanting to gain some needed help from the counseling process that is performed for their own good.