Write a personal awareness paper exploring how your family history, individual motivations, values, cultural background and personal characteristics are likely to impact you as a health counselor (in a positive and negative way).

If you are not willing to devote adequate time to the important task of exploring who you are as a person, then how are you going to expect people who you are supposed to help to do the same thing?
Instructions:
• Write a personal awareness paper exploring how your family history, individual motivations, values, cultural background and personal characteristics are likely to impact you as a health counselor (in a positive and negative way).
• Please explain how certain issues may help as well as hinder your performance as a health counselor.
• Make sure that you complete ALL of the exercises in the handout “Exercises for the self-awareness paper.doc” above. Incorporate what you have learned about yourself from these tests and exercises into your paper. Please do not just copy and paste the tests and exercises into your paper with the responses. Rather, you are to integrate the findings from these activities into your narrative and show what you have learned about yourself by doing these activities. The exercises are intended to help you with this assignment. So please do not write a paper consisting of the 13 exercises together with your responses. I am looking for something more sophisticated at this level. The key word is “integrate.” Weave in the information from the exercises and use it to INFORM your paper and to help organize your thoughts.
• Remember the key purpose of this assignment is to become more aware of factors that could influence your ability to become an effective helper in both a good and not so good way so you want to address this aspect fully in your thoughts about each of the exercises.
• Treat this assignment as similar to writing an autobiography. Please be as open and honest as possible and the more detail the better. This is a rare opportunity to document who you are as a person and for you to reflect on what makes you who you are. Please be assured that no-one besides me will read this paper.