Reflection: My Experience At Sheppard Pratt

Speaking on my experience at Sheppard Pratt as I stated before, working on an adolescent unit can be very trying on your emotions and patience. From this experience I believe I have become fully aware of my emotions and feelings. If there were ever a time I felt myself or I saw a coworker becoming irrationally emotional while working, we would offer to take a break or walk around the building and cover that coworker’s task for the time. I feel is important for a leader to know their limits and know when they need to let someone else handle the situation at hand. I rated my appropriateness of my feelings lower at a three due to feelings from outside resources carrying over into my other tasks. There have been times when it will be a very busy shift, which would affect my full therapeutic ability. This is natural for anyone to feel exhausted after hard work, but I need to improve on it not affecting others or my work. …show more content…
When starting a group I introduce the group topic and myself, explain and hand out everything needed, and emphasized respect for others during the group, this is how I feel I created the sacred space. Stating some rules of respecting others, not saying negative things if someone is sharing something personal, offer support are a few rules that help create common ground. At Sheppard Pratt, it was important for adolescents to not feel alone and to have their feelings validated. So I frequently asked group members to share what they are working on in the hospital or, if they were comfortable with it, to share what brought them to the hospital; in doing this it helped others realize they are not alone and created common ground between peers. For example if a patient opened up in group that she self harms, this could really help someone else struggling with the same thoughts to go to her and ask what helps them cope with self injurious