In ACT, values are defined as the areas of life that a person cares about and is willing to work towards. Values can also be viewed as the desired qualities of our actions, such as loving unconditionally or speaking honestly. Everyone holds different values in life and these values vary to different degrees, but not everyone behaves in a manner that aligns with their values. Additionally, values and goals are two very different things. Values are ongoing and cannot be achieved. Goals are obtainable and steps can be taken to reach them. In therapy, the main focus is often a client’s goals, which results in values being cast aside. However, in order to increase the quality of life and overall functioning of the client, the client’s values should …show more content…
A few common areas of life to explore during this include relationships, career, personal growth, and leisure. During this step, the therapist should ask the client to think, write, and discuss what they care about in certain aspects of life. For this, it may be beneficial for the therapist to provide a handout with several areas listed as well as guided questions about each for the client to answer. Another activity than could be implemented during this step is the What Do You Want Your Life to Stand For? exercise, which basically involves asking the client what he would like for people to say about him once he has died. Overall, this step should help the client identify what he cares about or does not care about in each area of his life (Hayes et al., …show more content…
Initially, this may behavior may only occur when prompted with specific exercises from sessions, such as a homework assignment that requires the client to join a study group. However, the client should also engage in valued behaviors when presented with opportunities outside of the session. In other words, the client is responsible for commiting to the valued behavior and achieving it both in session and outside of session. Eventually, simply valuing the behavior will motivate the client to engage in it without prompting from the therapist or commitment to the behavior (O'Donohue & Fisher,
P. Values are important and lifetime beliefs that greatly influence our behavior and attitude (SPSY 185, 2016). “NADSP (National Alliance for Direct Support Professionals) defines values as a professional who have values, skills and knowledge that constitute a unique and important profession” (NADSP Code of ethics, 2016). “As a DSP it is very important to examine one’s own values and attitudes as well as how they might factor in to the relationship with the individual that they are supporting” (SPSY 287, 2016 p: 19). “Our values and attitudes are extremely important factors given the type of work that is required in the human service field” (SPSY 287, 2016 p: 19). Professionals work closely with individuals to value them and spending time with individual. Therefore, it is the best way to learn about individual values and beliefs. Often professionals have hard time to label people, we as a DSP’s must think that the people who we are supporting are same as “we”. Being a successful DSP’s, we must need to have greater knowledge and positive influence when it comes to help people with disabilities. To become successful, we must need to look for changes in people’ lives and their past experience by asking them or by being empathy. There has not been a lot of changes in people with disabilities lives so as a DSP’s professional, we believe that we need to bring out our skills, abilities and
When the client becomes used to being in the moment with the therapist, the client begins to see how they function within the relationship, it seems the most important thing during these transactions, is the felt sense by both parties that they are truly engaged in a real and open experience. The essence of the experience appears to be more important than the actual words spoken, it is the quality and depth of the experience that seems to bring about the freedom to let go, releasing emotions that have been trapped inside, without fear of judgment or criticism. It appears that as the client begins the journey to search out their inner needs, and set aside other people’s values, the actua...
...or substantiated behaviors. Furthermore, I strongly believe that by finding out what the client wants, you are able to distinguish what stage, phase, or reason a client wants to change. Individualizing therapy to each client and combining these core approaches to therapy will be my blueprint to articulate and manifest the motivation to change!
...velop plans and goals that they can put into action. I further believe warmth and empathy should be used in building relationships between clients. The therapist should create a setting in which clients feel safe and can be vulnerable and spontaneous. As I stated before when discussing goals, it is the role of the therapist to cultivate optimism and hope. According to Gehart (2010), hope should be instilled early on in therapy to foster motivation and a sense of momentum (p. 337). I agree with this statement because more than likely the client is in therapy to make some kind of change, to make an improvement. If hope is instilled early in treatment, clients are able to feel empowered and strengthened by their therapist’s encouraging attitude. Overall, a therapist should be a facilitator, a resource person, an observer and a model for effective communication.
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Furthermore, my goal is to let client fix their problems on their own through insight and guidance from the therapist. I envision a successful therapeutic process being when a client follows their goals and achieves positive outcomes in their lives. I seek to gain a therapeutic process with my clients by building rapport, trust, and helping them gain insight. When my clients are stuck and need motivation, I plan to remind them about their goals and the positive things that will come with change. If family is important to a client, informing the client about their family and their happiness may help motivate them to continue to
Therefore, the importance of values must not be underrated. H. Anshutz identified compassion and altruism as two examples of values he implements in his practice (personal communication, April 13, 2018). Compassion encompasses treating your patients with high quality evidence based care, and demonstrating empathy towards each patient (H. Anshutz, personal communication, April 13, 2018). Altruism is when a healthcare professional puts the needs of their patients first (H. Anshutz, personal communication, April 13, 2018). Additional values for a physical therapist include advocacy, cultural competence, and safety (Guenther, McGinnis, Romen, & Patel, 2014). Advocacy is the protection of another’s rights, cultural competence includes awareness of cultural differences, and safety is preventing harm. These values can be challenged frequently with patients due to individualized reasons, however maintaining these values are key in providing effective, patient centered care (H. Anshutz, personal communication, April 13,
According to (Baum & Law, 1998; Wilcock, 2006) health is describes as the ability to engage in occupation. The inability to engage in occupation, whether caused by physical, mental, social, or environmental barriers, leads to problems in maintaining health and well-being of individuals.
While values play a critical role in the effectiveness of social workers on a professional level, they also play a critical role in their personal lives. Values create a foundation for social workers to work from providing a framework to complex and often difficult situations and scenarios. Though values also help establish professional standards and principles that serve as best practices to ensure the best interests of the social workers and those they serve are maintained. In addition, values serve as a critical piece within the profession of social work they are also a significant piece in the personal lives of social workers. In the personal lives of social workers, and lives of others, values support the significant areas and piece in
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Personal values and beliefs are shaped and molded depending on the person. No one has the exact same life and growth. We all grow differently and experience the world in a myriad of ways. The student nurse was raised in a strong foundation of Christianity and belief in equality, fairness, and the right of all. The student nurses’ mother would often tell her to be kind for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. Those words became a mantra and the student nurse seeks to live each day with it in mind. With these ideals in mind the student nurse developed her own personal values and beliefs especially in regards to nursing care. The patient comes first in all aspects. Their safety and wellbeing are top priorities. The value the student
There are so many people with different values and ethical standards that there may be some that are similar to yours, however, I believe that there are no two exactly alike. People's ethics and values are instilled by one's culture, background and environment. In my family, traditional values were very important to our upbringing. The concepts of religion, family, unity, honesty, and education were instilled at an early age. We were taught to obey and that the first duty of a child was to make our parents proud. I learned very early in my life about diversity, being one of six children brought up by the same set of parents and in the same environment with the same values how differently our values and ethics are.
There are so many things that are important to me, but only a few that could greatly affect my life if I didn’t have or accomplish them. The biggest things to me are success, family, and freedom. These are all things that are essential to my life in so many different aspects.
Understanding who we are as individuals can be a struggle for people throughout life. It can be difficult to comprehend who we are and why we exist. There are daily outside influences that help create who we are and what our values are. Values play a significant role in our lives. They shape the choices we make and reveal a big part of our identity to the world. Some values may be more important than others, but they still manage to influence our lives in one way or another, whether we know it or not. Values can range from a tangible item to an idea that has influenced us to stand by and remember those values. The values we hold with the highest importance act as a guide and help us prioritize our purpose and goals in our daily life. My family has taught me a list of values and traits that have helped me become a well-rounded individual. I value my family more than anything because most of my core inner values have started from their teachings at one point or another. My top values that I have developed from my family are dedication, honesty, and wisdom. I will discuss who I am in terms of the important values that shape my personal belief system and decision making framework that, in essence, describes the direction of my life.