1. When reviewing the values your organization, I was immediately brought back to the extensive training I had in my graduate studies to which focused on humanizing our clients by recognizing the unique identity a person has and how it relates to the different systems of their current society. It was relieving to see that an established organization had a focus on a strength based approach when facilitating healthy change within a client, as it was the foundational piece to my Latino Mental Health concentration. Also, it is also very important that I find employment at an organization that recognizes how discrimination and stigma are immediate issues within several diverse community which needs to be addressed to provide ethical and productive …show more content…
Understanding that pay is based on client acquisition and retention, I feel confident that I can be successful in this system. I have a passion for people and mental health which will drive my ambition to see as many clients as possible. I also am always ready to learn and adapt from those with more experience to achieve success with my client base. While it is recognized that a salary would be ideal, it also seems that this system keeps employees honest and forthright with their clients. Through my experience of watching others in the field, I have found that lack of motivation or concern for clients can be damaging to both the client and the mental health professional. With this system leaving the mental health professional responsible to keep a base of clients to receive adequate pay, I feel that those who are passionate and motivate can …show more content…
I was often made to feel ashamed of my different skin color, hair type, culture and life style. It is when I learned to celebrate my differences and found how these differences made me the unique person that I am. It is differences that made Malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr. or Fred Hampton the powerful figures that they were. It was also the differences of the many people who came to this country to start a new life that allowed me to have a neighborhood that I can feel at home, speak the same language and have my own differences celebrated. I learned that it is through our individual differences that we are great. Whether it be a difference in culture, physical ability, sexual orientation or gender, we are due the ability to freedom and life in this country. We must honor the differences in honor as we want differences of our