Human Services Beliefs

My Beliefs, Values, and Clinical Gestalt with Individual and System’s Paper

The Human Services field requires education, a thorough evaluation of your values and beliefs, and ongoing reevaluation of your own issues and personal growth. It also requires honesty, dignity, ethics, and a willingness to help others. One of the most important requirements of being a human resource worker is to be aware of your own feelings and beliefs. You also have to be aware of how your body language, nonverbal and verbal cues and tone of voice are perceived by others. To be an effective human service worker you must be able to set your own feelings and beliefs aside and focus on the client’s. Your focus is going to be on the clients’ values, feelings …show more content…
My own personal experiences and deep self evaluation make the gay adolescent and this issue the easiest to accept. I was raised with the belief that it was a sin to be gay, but as I have grown as a person and I have learned to accept people as they are. It is not my place to judge. A man who made racist remarks came in second, because I have not personally had to deal with this situation. I believe we are all the same in the eyes of God. The third easiest situation for me to accept was the religious zealot. I think this is due to my own background and it is not that hard for me to understand. The hardest for me to accept was the client who yells in every session when angry. My marriage to a physically, emotionally, and mentally abusive man makes it difficult for me to handle someone yelling at me. I know everyone is an individual and is raised in many different environments, so it may have been his life experience that in order to get his point across when he was angry he needed to yell. In order to rise above this situation I have to be aware of this and remember that this is not about me. The second hardest situation for me to deal with was the man who was abusing his wife. Once again this is from my own personal experience. I have to take into consideration his cultural differences and his own experiences growing up. Even …show more content…
I can remember an incident with a patient of mine. I was the Director of Nurses at the nursing home where this incident occurred. It was right after breakfast and her call light came on. I went into the room and I asked her if I could help her. She stated to me, “I need to go to the bathroom, but you are the Director of Nurses, you don’t need to help me.” I replied, “I am a nurse, it does not matter what my title is. I am here to help you.” She gave me the biggest smile and I helped her to the bathroom and then back into her wheelchair. I know that there are many areas in which I need to improve in order to be a successful therapist. I will need to continue to grow as a person and become more aware of my shortcomings and how I come across to others. Another area in which I need to improve is to pay more attention to details. As a nurse, I read fast and skim over the important parts, sometimes missing vital information. In order to be an effective clinician I will have to become very detail