Personal Narrative: My First Field Work At The Mental Health Field

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Recently I have my first field work at mental health setting and ran into a situation where a patient was testing me to see whether he can take the authority from me. As being first time at the mental health setting, I was nervous and did not ready for setting boundaries from the beginning. First day of field work, my colleagues and I were running getting to know each other warm up group session. One of the resident at the facility was teasing with impish jokes and inappropriate question. To the question of what is the goal of the 2016, he told us that he wishes to be a player with a smile. We got what he meant, but did not know how to react to the answer. So we tried to ask further questions to redirect this answer; “You meant by being a

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