Understanding your own emotional intelligence and motivations will help you be more aware when working with clients. By identifying both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, you can help establish goals and timelines for what will work for your clients.

Initial post:

1. Why do you think a helping professional needs good emotional intelligence? Support your answer with two examples. Provide two ways that you can improve your emotional intelligence.
2. Identify one example of each:

• Your intrinsic motivation for returning to school.
• Your external motivation for returning to school.