Personal Values And Core Values

Eventually, my values which influence my practice as a Social worker include my personal value my personal values, my value of self-determination, equality, equity, social justice, connectedness,& coming from a non-judgmental perspective, from a profession position, I value the AASW Code of Ethics and reflection of myself. (AASW, 2010)

The third value is dignity and worth of a person. This is one value that has been stressed in my social work classes. In my social work practice class, we recently read a novel titled The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Dignity and worth of a person, was one value that I witnessed while reading this novel. The characters were from another country and had beliefs that were not considered “ideal” to society, and there were times that they were not given the best resources and care because of these beliefs. Dignity and self worth is a huge value to have when dealing with clients who may not have the same views and beliefs as you. It is important to be ethical and respectful when dealing with clients no matter what religion, socioeconomic status, gender, or race they are.

Personal values, beliefs, and principles are important for individuals to know about themselves. However, when asked the question, “what are your personal values, beliefs, and principles?” The first response is often a laundry list of characteristics with the assumption that those three words are synonymous. From my experience when posed this question the laundry list became long and in retrospect, I began to wonder what the differences were between each of these terms. As a teacher, employee, mother, and Christian knowing these differences and how to answer the question is an important component of determining how I make decisions when faced with ethical dilemmas. Hence, began the investigation of how the terms relate, their meaning and what my answer is to this question. Since my laundry list was quite long for this essay, I will share and explain the top two elements for each category, how they relate to one another and how the knowledge influences tough decisions.

– My personal values will have to be respecting others, education, and helping and caring for others. The person(s) who I feel influenced me the most in forming my values is my parents and my grandmother. They influenced me because growing up they always preach about treating others with respect even if I feel like they don’t deserved it. They also made sure that education was a priority and not an option. For as helping and caring for others I always saw them helping when they didn’t necessary didn’t have too and not one complain or threw it in the person face. The value that lead me into social work is helping and caring for others wanting to see them do better and make better decision in life.

My first personal value that will impact my work as a social worker is respect. In terms of social work and ability to influence my additional values, respect is the most important. For me, respect means to honor others and appreciate their perspective. While my definition of respect may seem simple, its usefulness is multifaceted. One may respect a person, a place, a situation, a circumstance, etc. I learned concepts of respect as a child as my parents were teaching me to observe boundaries. They wanted me to respect my room, and keep it clean, and they explained to me how they respected my personal space. In return, my parents taught me to respect their boundaries, their room, and

Drugs, promiscuous sex, birth control, and total happiness are the core values of the World State in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. In today’s society things like drug use and reckless sex are often seen as taboo, but in World State, these activities are glorified and even considered normal. Aldous Huxley attempts to address to readers the harsh realities and cruel ways of our society in an exaggerated form. His purpose in doing so is to open the eyes of society to what the world might come to if things like technology and humanity get out of hand. In the World State, the motto that people are conditioned to live by is “Community, Identity, and Stability”, all three of which are ironically twisted to encourage members of the society

In order to become a great social worker, one has to develop great skills and be familiar with different strategies that will allow a social worker to help in the best way possible. Identifying your strengths, and weaknesses is a great way to start the process of learning about the areas one has to improve on. This paper will discuss my personal values, and how my values and feelings influence my attitudes and behaviors. In order to fully explore my identity I have taken the following surveys; professional identity development survey (PIDS), core survey, and VIA character strengths survey.

My own values can be best exemplified through my desire to provide advanced social work for people with substance abuse (SA) and mental health (MH) needs in

From the University of the Fraser Valley Social Service Diploma program I have become more aware of my values and ethics, and learned which theories that support these values are core parts of my helping framework. Self-determination, inherent worth of the client and intersectionality are three of my core values. These values have influenced me to form a helping philosophy primarily based off of person-centred approach, strengths-based practice, and anti-oppressive practice.

A lot of these values can agree with the values in social work practice. By having a strong and positive outlook for myself will show me that I can work with those that are non-positive people and some that don’t see a direction and help them out. I might not know exactly how I will be able to do so right away, but if me and the client work together things can be done for the better. By seeing how I pushed myself can let me see how I can let others have a good outcome as well. For instance, looking at the

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.

Traditionally, social worker are expected to not impose their own values on their clients, and suspended judgment about client behaviors, even when their own values or society values demand a judgement (Dolgroff, Harrington & Loewenberg, 2012). This can often pose difficult ethical decisions for social workers and clients, as personal value systems are inevitable. Social worker value gap, value neutrality and value imposition are important to consider when analyzing any ethical situation with our clients. Consideration needs to be given to both the social worker and the client as they interact together, although it is the social worker’s role to not impose their own values onto the client. The social worker must uphold the value of self

In the field of social work, I would argue that these terminal values mentioned above, are also important. First, security is important in the field while working with clients. It is important that clients feel secure and confident that they are receiving the best service. Second, sense of accomplishment is important because clients should hope to accomplish a goal

As my internship is more research based as compared to a clinically based internship, I couldn’t directly relate to the Corey and Corey chapter three reading about managing my values with clients, since I do not have any client interaction. However, I am leaning towards a more clinically based career in the future; therefore, as I was reading this chapter, I mainly thought about how I would react should issues regarding my values arise once I become a clinician. While reading, I completed the self-inventory to analyze how my values will play in my work. One statement says: “It is appropriate to express my views and expose my values as long as I do not impose them on clients.” My first reaction was to say that this statement is true; however reading on, I became more uncertain. Even though you may not have any intentions to impose your views on someone, you never know how vulnerable a client will be to being influenced. This could also be problematic if the client is too eager to please you or embrace your value system due to the nature of the counseling relationship. If the client is looking for approval, it will be easier for them to emulate your values instead of sharing their own. After reading these different perspectives, my view changed in that you should try to avoid talking about your own values, because it is unsure how perceptive the client will be towards them.

Core values are a person or an organization's fundamental beliefs, these principles prescribe behavior along with helping people understand the difference between right and wrong, “values are what motivate you in life. They are what guide you along the path of fulfilment, so essentially your values are the foundation of who you are” (C.Worsley). These values are important to have because they are what shape you, they make every person unique. Having a spirit of adventure, perseverance, and having patience are only some of my core values. Knowing what you cherish is very important and is something many people should revise.