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values and beliefs in counselling

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1.1 Identify your own values and beliefs By being able to identify my own values and beliefs is an important aspect of my continual personal growth. I use them to guide my actions and behaviours throughout my life as well as helping form attitudes towards different things. Some are rally core to me and they define who I am, whilst others change in importance dependant on my needs at any given time. My values and beliefs have changed over the years and will continue to as I grow and develop as an individual. May main vales and beliefs are as follows: I value individuality, every person is unique and deserves to be treated so. Every person has the right to make their own choices and decisions, even if I do not agree with …show more content…

As a busy mother, partner, worker etc. I find it hard to allocate appropriate time especially for studying. 1.5 Describe the benefits of giving and receiving feedback for personal development Feedback both positive and negative is important for personal development as it helps us to become more aware of what we do and how we do it. Both in good and bad ways, this feedback can then be used to self-develop and improve our practice. Receiving feedback gives us an opportunity to change and modify our behaviour, in order to become more effective at skills. All feedback needs to be concerned and supportive; it needs to include both negative and positive feedback. Positive can help us feel good about our self and positive about our skills that have been observed. However to develop further we need negative feedback to make improvements and grow as individuals, and

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