Reflective Essay On Accountability

At the beginning of the semester stated that accountability is one area in life I need to further develop. As I look back and truly think about the meaning of accountability I realize that I have grown in this area. However, there is always room for improvement and I think the next step in my journey in becoming a great therapist would be learning about professional duty. Learning how to be a professional in this role meaning stepping out into the clinic and take on that role, which will happen in a few years, but I can still brush up and learn about how I can prepare myself for that role. I believe my strengths are compassion caring, integrity, social responsibility as well as some accountability, but I know that from these I still need to

grow into the PT I want to be. The core values I know I still need to improve would be accountability, Altruism, excellence and professional duty. I know with these, I will teach them and be educated within the next 3 years of the program. These growths that I need to achieve as well as being confidence in my knowledge of what my my ability are need to be brought to light. I want to be the best therapist for my patients so they can have the best type of therapy for whatever issue they are coming in for. 

One of the reflection we then had to complete was a self-awareness reflection exercise, which at the time I did not like, but it did help to see what I thought about myself as well as working on something to help me become more open and empathetic with my patients.

Some of my reflections that I stated were, “I am hard working, self determined, honest, kind, and sympathetic. I am sometimes a perfectionist which makes it hard to make mistakes because I choose to look at those mistakes as failure not learning opportunities, this only hinders my ability to learn and move on from that mistake. I am passionate about things that I do in life giving it my best effort”(Myself). I have learned how I handle stress, what trigger these feeling of being overwhelmed and out of control of situations. Figure out different techniques and ways to revert the onset of stressful situations, so I wont feel overwhelmed in the end is very important, not only because there could be mental and physical break downs from it, but also so my work as a student and a future therapist wont be affected form it. I have also shown myself that I like to see the good in people and chose to give them second and third chances, but then again I have also learned how to not be naive when giving them these chances. Lastly, I have learned that I am one that puts on a hard outer shell so that people to not see my weaknesses and vulnerabilities, which can sometime be good when dealing with some patients or people in

life, but other times its can push people away, so I have learned to open myself up more.