Improves self-awareness: Journaling encourages you to pause and reflect on your experiences, thoughts and feelings. This regular introspection can lead to greater self-awareness and understanding. Improves mental health: Writing about your day and your emotions can help manage anxiety and reduce stress. 1. Self-reflective awareness SRA involves reflecting on one's own mental processes. Self-reflection and engaging in process conversations with others help cultivate SRA. Reflective journals have emerged as an effective way to monitor and develop reflective practice in higher education, as part of a wider metacognitive strategy to transform traditional learning approaches. Furthermore, the evaluation procedures of reflective journals appear to be an important factor in strengthening commitment to. An example of a study examining the impact of the Gibbs Thinking Cycle on medical students was documented in Dhaliwal et al. 2018, where they piloted a reflection assignment in which medical students were introduced to the Gibbs reflection cycle during a half-day workshop and subsequently submitted reflection stories. Self-esteem is one of the most studied psychological constructs in society. Parents, teachers, coaches and mentors continually attempt to foster self-esteem in children, students, athletes and employees. It is an essential element of success, life satisfaction and well-being. Self-esteem is an individual's general feeling of worth. Instructor: Dr Eleanor Dommett, IoPPN. Module: BSc, Psychology, Assessment: Reflective writing using personal profile blog entries in KEATS. Students produce five separate blog posts, with no more words each, focusing on five of the topics taught in seminars and workshops, for example learning metaphors and learning design.