Counselor Reflection Paper

Honesty, Love, and Dedication. These three values are, what I like to believe, the core of my very being, the epitome of what I seek to become in life, and the three major moral virtues I seek in my relationships with others. Honesty - named first as its importance to me is primary - generates a safe, secure environment that allows for trust, friendship, and genuine understanding. It also serves as the basis for all other values and relationships due to its vigilant stability and moral foundation. Love is the second most important value I hold to my heart. Without it, I don't think any human could find their way in life. It is through the love of others, as well as the love we show ourselves, that has the ability to save us from our struggles,

My family has always been there to support me and motivate me to be a better person. Faith is important to me because it helps me to believe that I can do anything I put my mind to and that when something bad happens to me it will get better. Honesty is important to me because I do not think it is right to lie and be misleading. People do not like to be lied to and do not like to be associated with dishonest people. Ambition is an important value to me because it is something that I was raised to have. I am known as an over-achiever and I always try to do my best at everything I do. I try hard to be the best that I can possibly be. Thankfulness is important to me because so many people take things and people for granted. Sometimes I may think that times are hard, but the reality is that it could be so much worse and a lot of people have life a lot harder than I do. Courtesy is a value I have because it is important to be nice to people. I think that being polite to people can turn their bad day into a good day. Accuracy is also important to me because I like to do things the right way. I would rather work hard to do my very best rather than take a short cut to not give my all. Financial Independence is important because I do not want to have to depend on anyone else to pay for my things. Another important value to me is affection, whether it is with words or physically. Showing people affection

One major value to me is work ethic. Work is what has been driving my whole life down to helping me through high school. I’d rather be working hard long days than be sitting at home doing nothing. It helps me get up and learn new things each and every day. It’s taught myself the daily course of a day.

My personal values are based off of the principles of my faith. I did not have the best environment for me at home, therefore, my safe haven was church because I fully believed God was listening to me. Because I put my faith in Christianity, serving my God, I have the value that every person is treated as a brother or sister in Christ. I am to love and serve people. “Execute true justice, show mercy and compassion everyone to his brother. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the alien or the poor. Let none of you plan evil in his heart against his brother.” (Zechariah 7: 9, 10 New King James) My values are taking care of others, and providing aide when needed. I value life because it is a blessing from God. I value compassion and empathy because it is

My three core values are love, honor, and truth. It was very easy for me to settle on these words because I have always had these as my values, but I did not realize it until this year when I joined my sorority, Phi Mu. These words are a part of our creed, and we are supposed to ‘practice day by day love, honor, truth’. Our creed is our sorority’s set of beliefs that guide us as a whole. We try to practice it every day, and these principles have made their way into my daily routine. Naturally, I think I would also practice these principles as I grow older and become a leader. My credo has developed throughout my life because I was raised to employ these values. I was shown love from my family, and because of that, I show love to others and whatever I put myself into. I was an athlete, and so I put my positive attitude and enthusiasm into my sports. I was shown right from right form my parents and from my teachers in school growing up. I learned right from wrong and I am

To answer any of these questions, one must first understand what the question is actually asking. To do that a workable definition must be used as a measurement tool and way of interpreting how one is able to understand and reflect on where the personal make-up of the individual comes from. Everyone is affected to different levels by the values that our family, culture, religion, training and social gathering. Recognizing ones own values can help direct a counselor's work to adequately and effectively resolve challenges as well as offer support to and with clients. All the values someone has learned while maturing and growing are pieces of a bigger tool one can use to better serve a client or clients.

One value or belief that stuck with me is, family must stick together. No matter what the situation was my family stuck together, at least when we were younger. Number two would

Values are used to describe what you are most interested in and find to be appropriate, my top five values are: achievements, honesty, respect, loved, and family. To make achieve something can be a good thing, as in it can get you a step closer to where you want to get in life. Honesty fits into having achievements, to be honest, helping you out in a situation in which it would lead you in major achievements. I feel like to be honest with someone it gets you some leading advantage because you will get

The values that resonate with me the most are respect, honesty, equality, responsibility and trustworthiness.

As a counselor, I need to be aware of my values and beliefs. This is important so I can prevent my values from influencing my clients, their views, and my own views of my clients. Essentially, values are what is important to us in life, and they influence how we act in both our personal and professional lives. Part of my job as a counselor will be to assist my clients in finding answers that are congruent with their values, not the values that I hold. To identify my values and beliefs, I participated in many self-reflective exercises. These exercises not only helped me identify my values and beliefs, but they also enlightened me on how I view people and the world as a whole.

Client met this week with his counselor for his 1x1 session for the week. Client at this time continue to be in compliance with treatment plan , meeting with Substance Abuse Counselor each week, and the Mental Health counselor 2 times a week. Client shared with his counselor that he mother will coming to the family group on Tuesday, she will becoming from Vegas. Client also shared about growing up with his parents and not communicating as family , and truly learning life skills from his parents. Client seems to hold a sight resentment against his parent for this action.

Some being: friends, family, education, and traveling. I identify “friends”as a very big value of mine because they’ve never told me to give up or get over anything, they’ve always told me they’re going to get me through it. Something else that I value is my family. My family is a circle of love, strength, and faith which is what joins us. Another value of mine is education, my parents have always taught my sisters and I that we can get a boyfriend or get engaged or maybe even married but our career won't wake up one morning and tell us it doesn't love us.

What values is important to me? To answer this question, I believe I should first start with a brief background about me. I was born in a small country in West Africa called Ivory Coast. My mother was a Christian and my father was Muslim. Because of the ongoing clash between members of these two religions, my parents were not married, as a result I grew up dealing with the clash, and living the life with two single parents. I spent my school years with my father, and summer breaks with my mother. My father taught me the values based on his belief and so did my mother. Consequently, my values originated from the merge of both beliefs.

I believe that my values and beliefs can impact my social work practice in my ways. For instance, I view education as something very import and that if every kid has the chance to they should go to college and get a degree, but there are some kids out there who could care less about school and are okay with getting by doing the bare minimum. When we went over a scenario of this in class about a kid who has all C’s and is fine with that and their parents are even fine with that I knew that it would be a struggle for me to maintain my own personal values and beliefs. I grew up with my parents telling to always try my best and that C’s where never allowed, so when we went of the scenario I instantly thought that this kid needs to get his grades up, but in reality, if the kid and his parents are okay with his grades there’s nothing I can really do about it. Ever since that day in class I knew that I was going to need to really gain and maintain awareness of my own personal values and beliefs and make sure that they do not impact my practice as well as influence my choices.

Values were a huge part of my childhood and show a large part in my lifet today, as they support my thoughts and actions. As a social work student I have to question my personal morals, opinions and ethics as these will have a large impact on my performance as a expert. My private values are consistent to the values of social work, which is the motive as to why I have chosen a career in a social care. These values are self - determination to promote social justice, being kind and accommodating toward others, honesty and respect. Working with troubled youth in my past helped further develope my interest in promoting social justice and social change on behalf of my community. I recognize, that as a social work student I have to act in unity