...Spiritual Discernment in Counseling Paper Instructions Purpose: To practice ethically as a professional counselor, it is important that you as a counselor trainees develop an awareness of your personal values and an ability to identify and manage potential biases. The American Counseling Association’s Code of Ethics mandates that “Counselors are aware of their own values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors and avoid imposing values that are inconsistent with counseling goals. Counselors respect the diversity of clients, trainees, and research participants” (A.4.b.). Therefore, it is important that you spend time identifying your own values, understanding the origin of these values, and discovering how your personal values may adversely affect your ability to work with clients with differing values. The purpose of the Spiritual Discernment in Counseling Paper is to 1) familiarize you with the views of vocational decision making and the will of God that are advocated in Christian circles today, 2) explore and identify your own approach to spiritual discernment, 3) increase your awareness of how your approach may influence your counseling, and 4) develop a strategy to work with clients with different approaches to spiritual discernment. Directions: To complete this paper, download the article “Discerning Spiritual Discernment: Assessing Current Approaches for Understanding God’s Will” by Dennis Horton, found in Blackboard. Divide your paper using the headings below (without...
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...Katrina Huddleston Comparative Education Project 12/9/14 Braconier, H. (2012). Reforming Education in England. Paris: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/921642333?accountid=12085 This article discusses how England has poured their money into child care and their education system within the last decade and there scores and educational performance remain stagnant. This stagnation is greatly related to parental educational background, income, and the social environment as a whole. This is a major issue for England whereas a growth in educational performance could improve their labor market, and decrease the pattern of having a disadvantaged background from becoming disadvantaged themselves and continuing on that cycle within their children. They are hoping that better targeted funding and gaining incentives for students within the schools could attract and support students who would help raise educational standards. The government in England is also taking on a different approach by expanding The government is increasing user choice by expanding the academies programme and introducing Free Schools, but needs to closely follow effects on fair access for disadvantaged children. The impact of increasing user choice on educational outcomes is uncertain, but the government should experiment with proscribing the use of residence criteria in admission to local government maintained...
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...Abstract This paper presents a personal view of spiritual discernment and the process. The paper examines the importance of mainly career decision making, my view of the struggles and things that influence decisions. The paper first explores decision making factors that are very important to me based on the survey in the Horton (2009) article. I also explain my choice of discernment approach based on the factors that are important to me. I explain how I feel they related to the approaches explained in the Horton (2009) article. I reveal past experiences that influence my approach, and influence how I may career counsel someone. Personal Position After doing the survey in the Article, I found that the decision making factors where all either somewhat important to me, important or very important. Although some factors were only somewhat important to me no factors fell in the category of not important. I see value in all the decision making factors listed in the article. I will start with saying the most important factor in any decision needing to be made is relying on God for wisdom and guidance. I believe for all the other aspects or factors of decision making to fall into place Prayer is a must. Using Common sense is very important to me as well, when making a career decision I feel one must be reasonable and apply common sense. Applying common sense would be asking yourself questions like is this job attainable for me, is it appropriate...
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...When it comes to discerning spiritual discernment, there are three different approaches: bull’s eye, wisdom, and relationship-formation. The “bull’s eye” approach is one of the more popular approaches of the three. Basically, the bull’s eye approach is that Heavenly Father has a perfect plan that is fully detailed for every person, past, present, and future, and He want to reveal that plan to everyone. It is up to us to discover Heavenly Father’s plan and then follow it. However, as humans we will stay from this plan, but He will never allow us to stay away from His will. Instead, we will hit the “bull’s eye” of Heavenly Father’s plan for our lives. We will do this by choosing the right, and these decisions that we make are revealed to us...
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...Spiritual Discernment in Counseling In my life I have been faced with many unique and wonderful situations. Each of these events have shaped me into the person I am today, and consequently have influenced my career path as well. In this paper, I will explore my personal position, my past and present influences, and the practical application of all of this in order to identify my calling. I assert that, more importantly, the struggles and challenges I have encountered have made an even bigger impact on the person I have become and allowed me the clarity to focus in on my life’s purpose. Personal Position When considering the major approaches in Spiritual Discernment, I find myself drawn to two. I strongly believe that we are all on a journey and that we are unable to stray far from our destined path. This is the essence of the Bulls-Eye Approach. God is in control. He has a plan for our lives. We have the power to make choices that can lead us astray, but only so far. God will always guide us back to the path we are meant to walk. However, I also find myself considering the Wisdom Approach when looking at my life’s path. I do not believe that God’s gentle guidance always comes in the form of signs. I believe that the Holy Spirit guides us through His wisdom, and that if we are self-aware, we will know what is right. God will guide us through the influence of our strengths, talents, and abilities. He also provides us with the influential counsel that have our best interest...
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...l.Introduction If you’re like most incoming students, you’ve probably been asked this question repeatedly by your friends, your family members and, especially, your parents. Maybe you’ve asked it of yourself. “What are you going to major in?” “What are you going to major in?” Coming right on its heels is a second question: “What can you DO with that major?” with that major?” (That’s the one your parents are asking.) They’re important questions. You do need to choose a major. And when you leave college, you’ll have to get a job. But during your time at Pepperdine, you will also be challenged to ask questions that go deeper than just what your major or your occupation will be. Sometimes it is not easy to understand the nature of a "vocation". We know the word means "calling", but how does God call someone to ministry? We generally do not hear a distinctly audible call to go to work for the Lord, at least, not directly from the Lord. We do hear the anxieties of our fellow man. We hear them wondering where priests and religious will come from in the future because so few young people are following those vocations today. We hear them hoping and praying that someone from the parish will step forward to do the work of Christ. How do we know if God is calling us? How do we know what our vocation is? How can we listen to God? Many people are confused about their vocation. There are some people who have chosen a more difficult vocation. They chose to always follow God. They help us...
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...lens is considered to be none periscope or paralysis. The report says that I can see the gifts and the weaknesses of each lens and able to move fluidly among them to adapt the right tools to each situation to ensure the best outcome. I have the mature ability to use the right tools in a given situation or paralyzed belief that everyone has a valid point. The mature expression of this position has no blind spot. I can see both the strengths and the weaknesses of each lens and to harmonize the four core values of autonomy, equality, rationality, and sensibility. Discernment comes with ethical maturity and provides direction in specific situations. Discernment is the act or process of exhibiting keen insight and good judgment. This is also known by many people around me. I am always told that I have an awesome discernment by many in the religious setting. There are many types of discernment and this type of discernment is spiritual. Two of my core values, which are autonomy and equality, are valued equally. I see that protecting individual rights and the well-being of the community work together in order to achieve the best outcome. The other two are rationality and sensibility and are equally the same. I believe that although there are universal principles, each situation is unique in its own right and not all exceptions can be categorized. The best solution is consistency and flexibility. Depending on what the circumstances require, I can manifest the four classic virtues....
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...B5: Sex Prediction and Selection SEX PREDICTION Sex prediction also termed as “prenatal sex discernment”. It is the prenatal testing for discerning the sex of a fetus before birth. A sex prediction test is a test done on or by pregnant women to determine the sex of babies. Methods: * Maternal Blood Sample to analyze the small amount of fetal DNA that can be found within, it provides the earliest post-implantation test. * Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) and Amniocentesis are two rather invasive testing procedures. These may, in principle, be formed as early as the 8th and 9th week of pregnancy. The difficulty of these tests and the risk of damage to the fetus, potentially resulting in miscarriage or congenital abnormalities (especially when done early during the pregnancy), make them quite rare during the first trimester. Amniocentesis (also referred to as amniotic fluid test or AFT) is a medical procedure used in prenatal diagnosis of chromosomal abnormalities and fetal infections, in which a small amount of amniotic fluid, which contains fetal tissues, is sampled from the amnion or amniotic sac surrounding a developing fetus, and the fetal DNA is examined for genetic abnormalities. This process can be used for prenatal sex discernment and hence this procedure has legal restrictions in some countries. * Obstetric Ultrasonography, either transvaginally or transabdominally, can check for the sagittal sign as a marker of fetal sex. It can be performed between...
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...Ethics are values, which are nurtured by an individual and are influenced by both society standards and personal experiences. I found the information provided by my Ethical Lens Inventory to be very informative. According to the Ethical Lens Inventory, it states that my preferred ethical lens is the Results Lens. That means I tend to listen to my intuition to determine the greatest good for each individual. My definition of an ethical person is one who makes responsible choices that benefit everyone involved at the same time. I have a tendency to seek “win-win” results for everyone, even in complex situations. My blind spot is being satisfied with too little good, which means that sometimes I fail to be accountable to those who are depending on me when I exercise my free will. If I have satisfied my own needs I have a tendency to become complacent and leaving problems unresolved in the long run. For me, this is completely true. Meanwhile, everyone else is left to fend for him or herself. My strengths are I prioritize the value of autonomy over equality, which I believe is the best way to ensure everyone is treated fairly and I value sensibility over rationality because I believe examining each situation in its own context rather than treating all situations with the same solution achieves results. My weakness according to the Ethical Lens Inventory is becoming too greedy. That means if I fail to exercise free will responsibly, my healthy pursuit of good for all can change into...
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...best possible administrative activities to pass through Congress, and when the circumstances justified, give some restricted arrivals of oil from the national oil hold. Applicant George W. Bramble, on the other had, favored boring in the administration ensured grounds of Alaska to discover future oil saves with the goal that America would never again be so subject to remote oil. The issue with Bush's arrangement, as per Gore, was that this could be obliterating to the earth of the barely populated Alaskan wild. Despite the political, legitimate or moral ramifications of such boring, there are issues managing different sorts of objectivity in this issue. In his book "Reason in Society," Paul Diesing portrays six noteworthy sorts of discernment. These incorporate specialized, monetary, social, lawful, political and biological reasonable. It is not difficult to fathom that this ecological issue includes every one of these sorts of reasonability....
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...The Meaning of Vocation The definition of a vocation can be interpreted in different forms, which eventually will either help fulfill that missing gap in life, or will end up bouncing back at square one. When one is not guided by the true definition of vocation, it may be easy to fall off the path God had planned for me. Lucky the Catechism of the Catholic Church and John Paul’s Meaning of Vocation can guide to what I will find happiness in. What I will need to do to answer the question” What is a vocation?” is first obtain the best definitions of a vocation, then what steps it may take to acquire my vocation, lastly talk about what I have been doing currently to discern my own vocation. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, vocation is “life in the Holy Spirit fulfills the vocation of man. This life is made up of divine charity and human solidarity. It is graciously offered as salvation “(CCC, 1699). John Paul II’s version is slightly different, and he says, “The vocation is a breathing of the Holy Spirit, who, at the same time as he genuinely shapes our fragile human reality, shines a new light into our hearts. He instills an extraordinary power that merges our existence into the divine enterprise” (MOV 16). How I interpret this is that God has a plan for me and when I follow it I will truly get to see and feel the happiness that every person strives for in their life. How a person is called to discern their vocation, and how does one answers it? This question...
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...senses in almost everything they do from thinking before doing something to not thinking and doing things that come naturally to them. Perception comes between simple sensation and complex cognitive behavior (human nervous system, 2013). Perception is so automatic to individuals that they hardly realize that what they are seeing and hearing is only an interpretation (human nervous system, 2013). Three reasons for believing in the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory information is discernment, elucidation, and awareness. Discernment is the ability to judge well (The Free Dictionary, 2013). Discernment generates one’s experience of the world around them and allows them to respond inside his or her surroundings. Elucidation is a communication method intended to clarify or explain that serves to make the explanation clear (The Free Dictionary, 2013). Finally awareness; awareness is defined as having knowledge and cognitive response to a situation or occurrence (The Free Dictionary, 2013). Discernment, elucidation and awareness provide ways to gather information and can be very accurate or perverse and inaccurate. Accurateness of sensory data depends on the source of data and one’s cognitive ability. Identify and describe at least three (3) factors contributing to the accuracy or inaccuracy of sensory data. A normal human being...
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...The Need For Discernment, of the Coming of False Prophets in our LifeTime. by Dallas Roberts on Friday, October 14, 2011 at 8:57am To those who are called, beloved in Yah the Father and kept for His Anointed: May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. Beloved, being very eager to write to you of our common salvation, I found it necessary to write appealing to you to contend for the discernment which was once delivered to the saints. Anointing does not guarantee we will always speak the truth. Yah anoints people, but people can twist the Scriptures to their own destruction (2 Peter 3:16). The false Messiahs that Yeshua warned of will come close to deceiving even Yah's elect. This is not because their anointing is false, but because they are false. It is not judgmental to insist on seeing fruit. Paul was certainly an anointed man of Yah; yet when he wrote to Yah’s people, he said nothing about how anointed he was but instead reminded them of His Christlike character, writing, “You are witnesses, and God also, how devoutly and justly and blamelessly we behaved ourselves among you who believe” (1 Thessalonians 2:10). There are plenty of people who speak in tongues and demonstrate great spiritual giftings, but the people of Berean are commended, not because they recognized Paul’s anointing, but because they were skeptical of it. For even though they received Paul’s preaching with all readiness, they nevertheless “searched the Scriptures daily to find...
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...Spanking teaches children to use the power of discernment based on how they were taught by their parent through conversations and moments of discipline such as spanking. According to The Spanking Controversy, “Those who were spanked reported that they understood the reasons why they were spanked and also realized the benefits spanking had in helping them develop their [self] discipline.” This shows that many parents who spanked their children explained to the children the reason why they were being spanked. According to a study conducted in The Ethnic Differences on the Link Between Physical Discipline and Later Adolescent Externalizing Behaviors, “African American children regard spanking as a legitimate, albeit painful, parenting practice that is carried out with their best interest at heart.” Based on the study, children According to Janie Watson, her usage of spanking as a means for child rearing allowed her children and her granddaughter to develop their discernment of right from wrong. This development of discernment helped build trust between Mrs. Watson and her children and granddaughter because she was able to believe that they had enough common sense to do what was right. One could also say that children who are disciplined by spanking have a closer relationship...
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...Week 9 Final Writing Paper Nicole Hanlin US/101 Sara Obeidat December 2, 2012 Week 9 Final Writing Paper Introduction My preferred Lens indicates none. The expression of this position does not have a blind spot. I am able to see the weaknesses of each lens; discernment helps ethical maturity provides direction in specific situations. My preferred ethical lens: I have learned in the ethical lens that it describes my personal ethical lens; also my ethical lens lists the facts about me. I have a mature ability to use the right tools in a given situation or I know how to paralyze belief that everyone can have a valid point. Some ethically mature are able to use the tools of all the lenses, adapting them to a given situation, test in the center of grid. Those without skills tend to be paralyzed and do not see all sides and try to please everyone. (“The Ethics Game”, 2012) My Blind Spot: My blind spot indicates none. I have learned that maturity expression of this position has no blind spot, so I am able to see both the strengths of the weaknesses of my lens and how to harmonize the four core values. Discernment comes from the ethical maturity and provides me specific directions for situations. (“The Ethic Game”, 2012) My strengths and weaknesses: I am able to see the gifts and weaknesses of each lens. I am able to move fluidly among them to adapt to the right tools that I need for each situation for the best outcome. I did not know about each lens until I did this...
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