Reflection Paper

Allen, Monias Week 4 Journal

In this week’s lesson, we learned how important it is to identify our strengths and weakness and how we can grow from them. As we grow throughout life, we change, and we become better at Identifying this shortcoming or strengths and improve as we mature.

Although I feel listening is a strong suit of mine, I think I listen I respond and not to understand at times. I can become so caught up with wanting to show someone I have an answer until I miss the point they were attempting to make. Learning to how listening instead of hearing( as my Mother would say) can help me with correct this shortcoming.

As I have mentioned before, I chose to work in a field where I listen to and help resolve issue dealing with discrimination, skills that I continuously build upon will assist with my Life Long Learning. I began to understand how vital Life Long Learning was when I realized I only had a few years left in the Military. Although education is important, I did not feel it was important enough to take full advantage of it throughout my career. Motivated to prove to myself, soldiers and children, I to can finish school while working and being the head of household I saw that with that same drive and motivation I could accomplish my goal in less time than I previously thought. It is amazing what you can achieve when you put your mind to it.

During one of my classes, we had to take an assessment that required us to be one hundred percent honest about how we saw ourselves if we were looking from the outside in. In this exercise, I noticed I could come off a bit arrogant and abrasive. The activity was to get us to understand impact versus intent. I always want to improve a little more from where I was the day prior, I took that lesson and applied it to everyday life, and although it may not be an overnight change as long as I work at it, I can be less arrogant or abrasive towards others. My question for this week is, how often can or will the NIMH give lectures or workshops to parent dealing with young children dealing with coping with Mental health issues?