My beliefs, Values, and Clinical Gestalt with Individual’s and Systems’ Paper:

The human services field requires empathy for the client, attending and listening skills, and most of all they must receive highly specialized education to teach clinicians how to become more effective helpers (Murphy & Dillon, 2003). The clinician brings special knowledge of human behavior, psychological theory, systems theory, and communication skills. A clinician’s role also requires them to have set boundaries established since they are in a unique relationship. The set boundaries established involves use of self; attending of self; and listening intently (Cousins, 1996). 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. An important goals of the human service professional is to assist the client in their process of self discovery and working cohesively on methods to change the behaviors that are crippling them. This can be accomplished through an established plan, implementation, and realistic timeframes.
In exercise 1.4, (‘Your Values and Beliefs’), I assessed an inventory of my own personal value and beliefs. I was somewhat surprised how I have matured over the years and compared by earlier carefree years to those values and beliefs as a more settled individual. Although I was not raised in a home that had strict protestant beliefs, there was an admonition of a higher power in our lives, though not one that was strictly adhered to an established worship pattern. I was taught that lying, stealing, drinking, fornication, cussing, and fighting were not to be tolerated in our house and any violation of these laws would results in corporal punishment by the matriarch of the