Reflective Journal Exercise Overview

Your reflective journal is an opportunity to assimilate information you have learned from multiple sources including, but not limited to, class lectures, discussion boards, individual and group assignments, and MindTap activities. A prompt is provided for you to apply "what you know" to "how you think/feel/believe" about a specific topic. This process is designed to help you explore and grow in your personal academic journey while promoting your critical thinking skills that are essential to your role as a nurse. The benefits of Reflective Journaling include:

• Critical Thinking Skill Development
• Synthesis of Classroom and Clinical Knowledge
• Self-Awareness
• Professional Growth and Promotion of Professional Behaviors
• Shift of Focus away from Self
• Awareness of Emotional Responses, Personal Biases, and Beliefs

Instructions

Your response should be approximately 200 to 250 words and should provide both your thoughts on the various factors that can positively and negatively impact parent/caregiver attachment in early childhood (e.g. child temperament, living conditions), as well as the result these factors can have on a child's social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development.

Writing Prompt

How does parent/caregiver attachment influence the overall social, emotional, physical, and cognitive development in early childhood?