reflection blog

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1. Context/Background:In week three, we explored the core skills needed in health promotion (advocate, mediate and enable/empower), and began the process of understanding our own personal standpoints that shape us as practioners in this area. The theory and practice of reflexivity has been documented in the research as central to effective medical and public health practice, especially when working across diverse communities. Bolam and Chamberlain (2003) define and describe the process of reflexivity through making a distinction between light and dark reflexivity. Light reflexivity means acknowledging and reflecting on the role of the practitioner, considering the involvement of practitioner values and personal attributes and their impact on practice. By dark reflexivity we mean interrogating practice at a deeper levelanalysing practices for their underlying assumptions, questioning whose interests they serve, questioning knowledge, how practices shape knowledge and more broadly, how they shape the discipline.2. Using the required/recommended readings for this blog develop and explain in your own words, the difference between light (formative) and dark (critical) reflexivity. By using your own language to describe the difference between these two types of reflexivity, you will be able to develop a deeper understanding of these terms.3. Apply light and dark reflexivity to the context example you have selected.4. Explain what you have learned and the potential implications of this for your future practice as apublic health practitioner.Tips:5. You may use first person in this assessment as it is a blog post. However, your response should be considered, and written in a tone appropriate for an academic audience.6. Remember to write in full sentences, use good paragraph construction and formatting as you would for any academic audience. When you paraphrase (i.e. write in your own words) the literature, please remember to cite the ideas that are not your own.Required readingTremblay, M.-C., Richard, L., Brousselle, A., & Beaudet, N. (2014). Learning reflexively from a health promotion professional development program in Canada. Health Promotion International, 29(3), 538-548.Recommended Reading    Bolam, B., & Chamberlain, K. (2003). Professionalization and Reflexivity in Critical Health Psychology

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