Allender Journal Assignment Instructions: Overview Each of us has a story, a very important and sacred story, in which we and God are always writing. The apostle Paul eloquently stated it this way: “12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed

Allender Journal Assignment

Allender Journal Assignment Instructions: Overview Each of us has a story, a very important and sacred story, in which we and God are always writing. The apostle Paul eloquently stated it this way: “12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose” (Philippians 2, NIV version). Additionally, the American Counseling Association (2014) Code of Ethics states that counselors are to, “monitor themselves for signs of impairment from their own physical, mental.

Allender Journal Assignment

Or emotional problems and refrain from offering or providing professional services when such impairment is likely to harm a client or others” (Section F.5.b).  In other words, “Counselor, know thyself!” The purpose of this assignment is to give you an opportunity to closely examine how your life has unfolded to this day in time, unveiling the work of God and your role. The premise is that by examining your life you will more clearly know what you bring to the counseling relationship that will both help and hinder your future clients. Additionally, this journaling assignment will become the basis of your sharing in your intensive growth groups. Instructions Each journal entry will answer one question per assigned chapter.

Allender Journal Assignment

Your answers should reflect two elements: critical thinking and integration of each chapter and personal application of each chapter content to your life.  Each journal entry is due on Sunday by 11:59pm. Please note that no late journal assignments will be accepted, as these assignments are intended to support the group discussions in the following week. Your journal entries should be 1-1.5 pages per question. References and citations are not needed for this assignment and first-person may be used, but please use general APA formatting including a title page, appropriate font, and double spacing. Allender Text Journal Questions Journal Entry Chaps.

Allender Journal Assignment

Journal Questions 1 Introduction Allender states, “If we’re taking a course, we’re willing to study books that bore us to pieces, but we won’t take time to review our own life, which holds answers about God and ourselves that will thrill us, amaze us and sober us.”  Journal on one experience in your life that has thrilled you, another experience that has amazed you and one that has sobered you.” 2 Chapter 1 Allender states that in order to understand our personal stories we must, “consider the various characters – both major and minor- who make an appearance” in our lives. https://youtu.be/xTrMicIqomM

Allender Journal Assignment

Allender points out that the major characters of parents come with their own stories that are often passed onto children. Consider your own parents and their stories. How did they grow up? What stories of their “past relationships with their parents such as success and shame; power and abuse; love?” 3 Chapter 2 Allender points out that we are all “a collage of stories” that begin with the stories our families make of us. What are some of the stories you were told, by your own family, about you as a child? 4 Chapter 3 Allender speaks of a story being an expression of “how and why life changes.”

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