Values,_Beleifs_and_Clinical_Gestalt

My Values, Beliefs, and Clinical Gestalt By Heather R. Goods BSHS 322/ University Of Phoenix Jean Holtz The success of a human service professional comes from education, interpretation of one’s own personal values and determination of beliefs. A person must possess qualities of being genuine, honest, and able to uphold ethics through a strong understanding of how they can help others. Human service professionals have to be aware of their own beliefs and feelings. Talking to clients is important in this field. Having control of one’s own conversations through personal body language and tone will make the help that is being offered to others more effective. I cannot let my own personal feelings or beliefs get into the way of what a focus is for any client. Through careful planning I will able to implement goals and help my client with personal interventions. One strong belief that I have is to be strongly aware of my own limits and to recognize ways that I am not going to be effective in situations that I may have personal thought about. In the human service profession I will be valued to others in my community that needs my service or help. I am prepared to hold strong to my goals to help others that may have or are dealing with problems or situations that I can assist them with. I am a mother of two daughters, ages 16 and 10, until two years ago I was raising them solely. I lived with their abusive father for almost 14 years, even before I ever even had children. I found myself reaching out to others for help and not receiving the help I needed in return. I decided I would become a human service provider when I realized the help that I needed wasn’t anywhere to be found. I have seen a lot of things and situations in my life that are experiences that I probably should not have had to be faced with. I believe these situations have given me an insight on what others will and have already dealt with in their own lives. I found myself reaching out to others to help them which gave me the strength in turn to help myself. In the exercises I learned that I the things that I take personal and how I can choose to help others. I have strong values and ethics. I think for my life experiences I would find it hard to deal with someone who has or is abusing a family member. On the flip side of this I know I have a lot of insight and knowledge that will be strong for those in these abusive situations or for those who have been there. My father was an alcoholic for most of my childhood, and then he became a recovering alcoholic who never recovered completely. I gained knowledge from living under the same roof for so many years while he hit rock bottom, stopped, relapsed and started all over again. I feel this personal knowledge is an insight that may help me to relate to on and what they may be going through with an addiction, a behavior or a situation. Children are another part or aspect that I feel I have strength in. Both of my children have been diagnosed with ADHD at a young age. As individuals and family they have been in therapy or counseling for behavioral problems and other things they have encountered as they have grown. I found in my girls how I see them suppress things that they are faced with and push it down inside of them only for it to return in some manner. I am an honest, caring, understanding and truly genuine person. I have compassion for others and their needs.” Helping others helps me to gain knowledge for life in general. How I choose to interpret what a client may be saying with their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors will give mea n understanding of ways to provide help to my client” (Southern Regional Education Board). Whenever dealing with a client or sharing a presence with on, it is important to stay relaxed, in control with confidence and openness. I will give my clients a supportive presence with my personal warmth and self control in a caring natural manner. Human service professionals are “characterized particularly by an appreciation of human beings in all of their diversity, human services offer assistance to its clients within the context of their community and environment” (The search for identity). In upholding my position I will bring integrity and ethics of a human service professional, and will help to promote my clients in the community as well as their being. I will give my own respect to the personal integrity the welfare of my clients at all times. I will also know my own personal limitations and clients’ right to receive or refuse my services offered. I will have personal growth and be aware at all times of my own beliefs, values, needs, background, and attitudes so that helping others is less likely to be affected negatively. As a human service professional I will anticipate helping others and their needs with human problems and situations. I have an appreciation for the strong diversity within my community and environment. My strong will, values, and beliefs will help me carry out my roles when I enter into professional-client relationships with individuals, families and even groups within my community. I will help to negotiate a purpose, a goal, a direction for my clients while always adhering to codes of ethics. I will use dignity, privacy and integrity while providing services to the upmost standards for each and every client. Although I may have some areas that I may need a human service professional at times in my own life, I will give my best to those who I get to help with my own insight or new areas. Whether it is listening, understanding, helping, or just being there I am going to make the most of my profession based on my own values and beliefs. I will not judge what others have been through or are going through, I have been there possibly myself. Education will be the tool that is needed to become an actual professional although I will always provide human services to others when needed. References Atkinson, Donald and Hackett, Gail. (1995) Retrieved June 25, 2010, Counseling diverse populations. Dubuque, Iowa : William C. Brown. Gibelman, M. (1999). Retrieved June 24, 2010 The search for identity: Defining social work, past, present, future. Social Work, 44(4) 298-310. Southern Regional Education Board (1967). Retrieved June 24, 2010.Roles and Functions Mental Health Workers: A Report of a Symposium. Atlanta, GA: Community Mental Health Worker Project