Understanding mindfulness and mental health Review

Literature reviews, report writing (editing and producing several drafts of an abstract) for my project linking mindfulness, and various types of compassion and forgiveness (as well as mental wellbeing), producing a professional poster surrounding a colleague's project to be presented in a conference, weekly in-person meetings with Dr. Rebecca Cheung

Me and my colleague both completed our own project, however due to my colleague's work being better and completed faster, I ended up taking on the responsibility of producing the professional conference poster for their project

Had plenty of advice and assistance regarding abstract writing for a report, developed my skills in literature reviews (selecting more relevant, specific research to include)

I frequently submitted drafts of my work to Dr Rebecca Cheung, which we then went through and discussed in our weekly meetings. However, I felt that I lacked support and felt dismissed when being told that I needed to put in more work and seeing how much more praise and support my colleague was getting

We only saw each other in person in our weekly meetings, which felt comfortable but could sometimes be a little tense or awkward. Other than that, we worked primarily on our own which I was happier with.

Overall, I can say that there were parts of my placement which I thoroughly enjoyed, mainly the specific content I was learning and researching for my project. Otherwise, I felt that the placement lacked motivation and energy, and was quite monotonous when completing the same work almost every week.

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