Beliefs_Paper

1 My Beliefs, Values, and Clinical Gestalt with Individuals and Systems Paper Lakesha Marshall University Of Phoenix Abstract I always wondered about the values and beliefs Human Service professional upheld. In this paper I personally give examples on my beliefs and values that I uphold in becoming a human service professional. I will discuss what values is important to me and why I consider them to be important. I will discuss what things I would do different then how human service professionals in today society. Like what clients I would find hard to accept and why. I show what things I would need to work on before becoming a successful human service professional. I will talk about clinical repose and clinical helping. What assumptions I had about clinical helping and what made my views changed, or if it had an affect on my personal beliefs. I would then summarize why becoming a human service professional is important me, and what drives me to want to help people. The motivation that drives me to want to help people are based on my values and beliefs. My values are the things that my parents instilled in me and are also based on life experiences. My values are the things that are most important to me, the things that keep me going on the right path in life. The values I treasure the most is honesty, respect, and the concern for others. Honesty is golden. Once its lost, it hard to find. My motto, which I took from my grandmother is honesty is the best policy. By having honesty you develop trust, and trust develops into a relationship. When you trust someone you are saying I believe what this person is telling me. As a child I was taught to respect my parents, teachers, and adults. To respect someone is not to agree with someone but show regard to. I was always told treat people like you would want to be treated. And showing respect is one of them. I believe respect is something that is not given its earned through the course of time. I was not raised with a silver spoon nor were my parents. I have a genuine concern for others because of what I had to experience in life. I know how it feels to struggle, to feel alone, having to have to sacrifice. That is why I have a need to genuinely want to help people for the sake of bettering someone else life. I believe if you want to ever have any successful relationship you have to have honesty, respect, and a compassion for others. I can remember as a child going to psychologist because my father had died. My grandmother wanted me to go because she felt I had some underlined issues that I had to address. But when I got to her office it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was going to be an older lady asking me questions in a dull place with one picture on the wall. And all the walls were white and books all over, with a lounge chair. But I was wrong the place had a warmth feeling as if I was at a family members house. Their were no white walls, or even a lounge chair. I actually felt like I was home rather than a doctors office. My psychologist did not ask me questions, she wanted me to talk. The place was kid friendly as well. At times I go back till that time and think when I get my own practice I would want to create the same setting. I would want to hang up more personal pictures rather than blank stares, to create a more intimate and personal setting. So my clients can get a sense of who I am. I would also create a kid friendly atmosphere for the children, while maintaining an adult atmosphere as well. The atmosphere that the client perceive is important because it furthers how you will interact with them. Clinical repose is in important in any profession. It provides a clear environment for clients without the clinician anxieties and problems, allowing it to be all about the client with no distractions. I would need to work on my clinical repose. I would need to learn how to remain calm regardless of situations and or disturbances. In my private life I quickly react and I am not calm most of the time. I have a relaxed demeanor but any interruptions my demeanor can change. Also in my private life I love to laugh, and have a sense a humor, in my professional career I would see that unprofessional and overly friendly. Like the material says clinical repose comes with experience. I don’t think it is something that you can just change and fix and its that simple. I believe it comes with time and experience. Knowing what works for you and your clients. Knowing what gives you more of a conversational piece. And knowing different people emotions, and feelings that comes with experience. Working in the Human service field is challenging because you have to work with many personalities, differences, emotions and problems. Not not every situation you can empathize with, because you haven't had the same experiences someone else had. In the exercise 4.3 if I was a clinician there are clients that I would feel are the most difficult to have to deal with, while others would be less difficult to deal with. I would label a woman having an abortion, a drug addicted woman, a person who is a bully and a person who is very critical a one. I would label them a one because it is the easiest dilemma that I can accept merely because I can personally relate to them or have had a friend or family member in that situation. Clients who hate professionals, clients who yells in a session when they are angry, a husband who abuses his wife, and a man who makes racist remarks I would rank a two in difficulty. The ones I labeled a two I feel is a step by step process, and it will take time, if time is on your side. Religion would be at the top of my list because religion is not my strong point. “A person may be spiritual but not religious, religious but not spiritual, spiritual and religious to varying degrees, or neither spiritual nor religious”(Article:Spirituality, religion, and counseling. ,copyright 2008). A religious zealot, and a clergy man that been sexually involved with a parishioner would be in my third category. I would consider religion as my third category because it would be the hardest because its merely on religion and other peoples beliefs. I feel is someone is passionate and has their own beliefs it will be harder to convince someone their beliefs are wrong or indifferent to what they believe. Immediate and large context is important and has an affect on the individual and the community. For instance homelessness affects the community which is a larger context, but a smaller context would be a business man being depressed because financial problems due to his business losing money. I would say that is a smaller context issue because the businessman lose money because people are afraid to go to the store because homelessness men are around the store, and people are afraid to go inside the store because they think they are going to get robbed. I always believed clinical helping you would have to get evaluated and if you were categorized with a problem by a professional then you would be able to get additional help. Which is true in today society. If you need help you have to show why you need, and what is wrong for you to get outside help. Professionals want to know about a persons history to determine predetermine behavior, and family history to get insight of current and future problems. I also believe clinical helping is effective in diagnosing and prevention. There are many program statewide to help people with many problems. The nation's largest network of food banks, reports that 23.3 million people turned to the agencies they serve in 2001, an increase of over 2 million since 1997. Forty percent were from working families. (n.d.) Feeding America. I have a genuine regard in helping people based on my personal values and beliefs for people. I believe in honesty, respect and compassion for others. Working in the Human service field I know I would have to be able to set aside my own feelings, beliefs and values to focus on clients. I also know that I have to be aware of what you can and can not do to be effective at setting limitations. I believe my personal beliefs should not interfere when counseling others. I know everyone is different I do not expect someone to have the same spiritual, values that I hold. Work Cited Article:Spirituality, religion, and counseling. .(COPYRIGHT 2008). High Beam Research. 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