What does it take to have optimal human functioning in your life, have positive emotions can be very beneficial to an individual’s mental and physical health? Society accepts people who view things in a positive way versus those who view things in a negative way (Fredrickson, 1998). Courage, wisdom and knowledge can help individuals to lead a more productive and happy life.
Journal Activity Summary
1.1 PERMA Assessment:
The PERMA assessment is an assessment that is a 23 questionnaire that is evaluating your elements of well-being, like emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement. While taking this assessment I really didn’t know what to expect, when the questions started asking about my health, this is where I became a …show more content…
It was designed to see where your strengths and weakness in character would be. I went into this assessment feeling very confident, I truly feel that I have strong character, my character is extremely important to me, I was though very surprised by order of what was my strongest point of character. The survey said that my top strength was fairness, equity and justice, as I do value these qualities, I just didn’t feel that these would be my top. I thought my top strength would be honesty, authenticity and geniuses, but this turned out to be number four on the list. Being honesty and integrity is everything to me, if I tell someone I will do something my word is like gold, and I have zero tolerance for people who are not honesty, I have always told all five of my children that if you can’t speak the truth then don’t speak at …show more content…
If we do not have a balance of our character strengths and weaknesses then it will be hard to have complete happiness and to be able to function on a happiness level (Donaldson & Dollwet, 2015). The strengths of applying character to an individual’s personal, profession or a social issue is that it creates the foundation for life-long optimal development (Park & Peterson, 2009). In the professional world a person who has strong character is usually seen as a leader, this is usually what people look for in leadership. Also if you can have a strong character as a teen then when faced with a social issue like drinking at a party it might help that teen to not go down the wrong path (Park & Peterson, 2009). I believe I have learned from these activities a couple of important things that will help me in not just my personal life but also in my career path of social work. I think the PERMA and VIA assessments should be used prior to working with clients to gain a better understanding of where that clients mind and emotions are. By participating in these assessments I have learned a lot about myself which I believe in turn will help me to better understand the people around me, which I hope will make me a better listener and communicator. I am going to try and apply what I
Journal Activity Summary
1.1 PERMA Assessment:
The PERMA assessment is an assessment that is a 23 questionnaire that is evaluating your elements of well-being, like emotions, engagement, relationships, meaning and achievement. While taking this assessment I really didn’t know what to expect, when the questions started asking about my health, this is where I became a …show more content…
It was designed to see where your strengths and weakness in character would be. I went into this assessment feeling very confident, I truly feel that I have strong character, my character is extremely important to me, I was though very surprised by order of what was my strongest point of character. The survey said that my top strength was fairness, equity and justice, as I do value these qualities, I just didn’t feel that these would be my top. I thought my top strength would be honesty, authenticity and geniuses, but this turned out to be number four on the list. Being honesty and integrity is everything to me, if I tell someone I will do something my word is like gold, and I have zero tolerance for people who are not honesty, I have always told all five of my children that if you can’t speak the truth then don’t speak at …show more content…
If we do not have a balance of our character strengths and weaknesses then it will be hard to have complete happiness and to be able to function on a happiness level (Donaldson & Dollwet, 2015). The strengths of applying character to an individual’s personal, profession or a social issue is that it creates the foundation for life-long optimal development (Park & Peterson, 2009). In the professional world a person who has strong character is usually seen as a leader, this is usually what people look for in leadership. Also if you can have a strong character as a teen then when faced with a social issue like drinking at a party it might help that teen to not go down the wrong path (Park & Peterson, 2009). I believe I have learned from these activities a couple of important things that will help me in not just my personal life but also in my career path of social work. I think the PERMA and VIA assessments should be used prior to working with clients to gain a better understanding of where that clients mind and emotions are. By participating in these assessments I have learned a lot about myself which I believe in turn will help me to better understand the people around me, which I hope will make me a better listener and communicator. I am going to try and apply what I