Family
During the past few years the knowledge and skills I have gained, has benefited my family in terms of increasing their knowledge particularly health and well-being. Furthermore it helped them to develop skills for day to day living. One example would be nutrition, over the past year I have develop knowledge on this particular subject as I was studying it as a topic. I used this knowledge to inform my family members about healthy lifestyle and dietitian requirements. Since my mum most of the cooking in the house, I educated her about calories intake on food and furthermore much is allowed for each individuals according to their age, weight and height. She put this into practice by cutting the amount of sugar and salt used in cooking.
From a personal experience I think this subject has been useful to me and also people around me. She is now gradually learning more about health and nutrition. From learning about communication I have developed a good awareness about communications skills. This has enabled me to break down communication barriers within the family. Furthermore I have used subject related knowledge to assist my siblings with their subjects for example home work etc. this way they can develop various of knowledge which they can later use in their lives.
Friends
Friends have benefited from my knowledge and use of skills in many ways during the past few years. I inform my friends about thing such as diet, income and inequities etc. for example I study sociology in relation to health. Therefore we started talking about health and things which effect individual’s diet. They came up with low income, I was informing them about what the theory Marists say about health and inequities. Marxists argue that people who are in the lower class have poor health because they earn lower wages. Therefore poor diet and environment is due to the income they receive. Social class has a big impact on individual’s lives and the way they are brought up. People who are in the ruling class are known to have better health conditions. Marxist believes that capitalism is the main cause for inequalities and social class differences. When I inform them about thing such as Marists theory and inequalities in health, they can use this to think about different things that effect health. Developing their own perspective on what we have been talking about, they can also inform others. Later on if they decide to study sociology then they can use this knowledge for their work.
Services users/work placement
By applying my knowledge and skills into practise I can enhance service user’s care. Developing supportive relationships with service user is one example. There are many things that have learnt about me during the work placement. For example, I have learned about my strengths and weakness. This could help me on my next work placement because I could improve on my weakness. It also gave me awareness in the future work placements and how I could improve on things. One of my weakness is time keeping. I did not know this before the work placement. For my next work placement I am going to try and improve on that. It also gave me the opportunity to now about my strengths in that particular work placement. Strengths include confidence, team work, ability to work on my own etc.
Disadvantages
On the other hand the knowledge that I have provided might be used incorrectly. If the knowledge and skills are not applied properly then this will result in problems. For example when giving advice to my mum about healthy eating, she may eat too much of one nutrient. For example proteins are good for your health however too much can damage your health. So when telling her information I also had to inform her about not to use too much and what can happen if too much protein is eaten. Other disadvantages can be the knowledge may not be relevant to every situation leading to misunderstand. When giving information you have to be also be careful, this is because you can’t use your knowledge to influence others beliefs.
Conclusion
Overall I have evaluated how my personal learning and development has benefited other around me. The knowledge you again from education should be used to educate others around you. This will help them to increase their knowledge on things and also benefit them to have wide range of perspectives.