A Reflective Therapeutic relationship assignment....am stuck

[Upsadaisy]

GRRRRRR
I'm using gibbs reflective cycle and am tryng to write the descriptive part of this. The assignment is about therapeutic relationships and my experience and learning of them.
I am having a real mental block that is lasting for days. I had hoped to of had the bones of this assignment down by now.....its due in next weekand I'm on placement for day shifts wed and thur. I'm tempted to ring in sick just to buy more days but knowing my luck I'd just feel guilty all day and still get no work done

Feel free to swear at me, but (seriously) can you describe the Gibbs reflective cycle to me? i.e. can you describe it to someone who doesn't matter?

good question/advice murph

get what you are trying to say in the essay down here, so that anyone can understand it in one paragraph. then take each sentence and use it to make section headings.

use funnel system: start with the widest meanings and narrow and narrow down right down to your own experience.

what is a therapeutic relationship, and conversely what isn't? who are the big authors on it and what do they say? what is the frame within which you understand the therapeutic relationship (which model, then which main proponent within that model)?

sorry if this is either blindingly obvious, or incomprehensible

ok have googled gibbs cycle and now get what you mean about being in the descriptive bit: what happened?

just WRITE!

don't worry about it being crap/unorganised/whatever

write down what happened. splurge it out. stop thinking and write.

only way to get through a block.

look at it the next day and it won't be as bad as you think

Hi, thank you all. I gave up and watched some tv.
The bit I'm stuck on is that I can't think of a way to describe many similar experiences as its how I've changed throughout the year whilst simultaneously discussing the therapeutic relationships. Mentally multitasking is not my thing. I can get on and do stuff without thinking but writing this stuff is a bugger.

I'm coming to the end of my 1st year of childrens nursing and this is the last assignment I need to complete this and a tripartite meeting next week but thats something I can't think about at the moment.

I'm going to see if I can nip to the hospital library tomorrow for a coupleof hours if the ward is quiet and then get back to it tommorrow night.

Sophable - thanks tommorrow I am just going to write then at least my tutor can see I have done something. Maybe she'll show me some mercy