Reflective Assignment #2

Ronald Vallejo

Humber College

ADMH 5001

Sylvia Starosta

April 14, 2022

 Reflective Assignment #2

One of the most important learnings I've learned about this program is the

models of mental health recovery that are determined by various approaches. In the first

place, they lead me to question what well-being is, who can determine what is or is not

health? In this program I have learned the importance of the interaction of the human

being and his environment, culture, society and beliefs, the interconnection of these

elements can not only be seen in isolation but is part of the entire structure of the

human mind. The recovery approach models can understand what well-being is and

how to intervene in the human being that is needed to help, the biopsychosocial model

took all the spheres of human behavior to bring a clear understanding of the complexity

of behavior.

Understanding mental illness and mental disorders was a great experience for

me, as a mental health worker in my own country, I was able to take a lot of interesting

materials and knowledge to put into practice, especially with behavioral addictions.

Understanding DSM conceptions and nomenclatures gives me high skills in detecting

harmful behaviors and pathological behaviors and gives me great knowledge about

various types of effective treatment methods. One thing that really caught my attention

was the problems and concerns about the use of the DSM, when I was in my

professional training at university I put together a book called classifying in psychiatry by

Nestor Braunstein, I have realized that the categorization of human behavior pathology

can affect people who have the pressure of clinical labels, in this program I had the

opportunity to see the same problem in a different perspective since my university

formation was about a psychoanalytic approach.

 I am pleased about everything I have learned about all the psychopathologies

that affect the people and what kind of treatment that aim to reduce suffering and

stabilize the person, I have noticed that in Canada most of the treatment have as an

objective to reincorporate the individual in the society which is great.

One of the concepts and knowledge that I would love to learn in the future is

about the social disorders such as autism because I use to work a lot with significant

number of students with this syndrome, getting tools of assessment and interventions

would be great as my professional training and gain experience in that type of mental

health field.