Title: Reflective Practice
Course: Fundamentals of Behavioral Health (70 Hours with MOAB) > Section: Unit 1: Mental and Behavioral Health, Behavioral Health Problems, and Mental Health Disorders

Reflective Practice

Entry 1:  Behavioral Health Reflective Learning Journal

Now that you have completed this Unit, please respond in writing to the following questions:

1.   Describe your understanding about the differences between behavioral and mental health?

2.  Identify 3 ways people can maintain their behavioral and mental health and well-being.

3.  Discuss how stigma can affect people. Include what can be done to help people who are in this situation.

4.  Identify one FACT you learned in this Unit that surprised you. Explain why.

5.  Select one behavioral health problem or mental health disorder that you have experienced.  Describe how what you learned in the Unit was similar to your experience and what you learned that would have been helpful to you or made the experience a better one.

6.  Describe 1 most important piece of knowledge or a skill about caring for or responding to patients with behavioral health problems or mental health disorders that you learned from completing this Unit and 1 area of knowledge or skill that you are still unclear or unsure about. Identify how you will obtain or develop the knowledge or skill.

7.  How will what you learned in this Unit change the way you currently respond to patients with behavioral health problems or mental health disorders?