This Core Competency Reflection is based on critical thinking and communication skills.

Self-Reflection

In the Substance Abuse Role Play project, I used critical thinking to create and develop responses to my given scenario that peacefully resolved the conflict and kept previous relationships intact. I found it a bit challenging at first to work around these limitations because it was easy to just have the character break off the relationship instead of preserving it yet setting the boundaries. So, I had to use critical thinking to figure out how to incorporate the strategies in a way that would match up closer to real life scenarios and followed the requirements like coming up something similar to Tylenol, yet not deadly, to keep both groups happy. In the project I also used communication skills to collaborate with my groupmates so we could act out a satisfactory skit. While we were creating the script, we discussed who would have what role and asked each other what we each wanted to say so that everyone was happy with it before we filmed. We did have differing ideas on the filming and editing aspect, like what we should include, as well as how to create a negotiation solution, but we managed to work it out peacefully, which resulted in a filmed skit we’re all satisfied with.