A Child's Drawing"A Self Portrait"

The purple colored drawing was given to me by a young seven year old girl that i worked with last year. I remember her saying; "This is a gift for you", and i remember saying thank you and that i would keep the drawing.
The reason i chose to post this piece of art work was not only because of the working relationship that i had with this child, but because of the lesson that i learned in receiving this piece of art work.

I worked with the child creator of the art work for several months, and our counseling relationship grew over the months of working together, near the end of my work with this young girl she presented me with this drawing one day, as we sat and drew together.

When i received the drawing something about it really stuck with me, sure it is a "self portrait" of me,and she captured my glasses and hair length, but looking down at the drawing and also in examining the work that was established with this child, i asked myself; "how does this child really see me? positively, or negatively?  I learned it is just as important, if not more to also try to view the child's perspective on the work you may be doing. I feel evaluating this will greatly help in establishing report and relationship building when working with children.
 Not only did i receive an offering of a piece of art work, but i also received a lesson from this young child. From then on when evaluating my work with children, especially traumatized children, i always ask myself; How does that child view me, and our working relationship?