My Values: My Core Value Of Social Work

Listening to my music as I write this paper brought me to truly think about what my core values are. In order to discern that I had to ask myself, “What in life, is most important to me?” The common answers are honesty, loyalty, happiness; however, I found that what I truly care about the most, is connection. A feeling, a sensation that two people can hold a deeper connection with each other than what is truly necessary in the world. Humans strive for connection but I believe we take it for granted and don’t realize the impact we have on each other. Secondly, I find sincerity as a core value. Sincerity differs from honesty in the context that I can be honest about something (You are beautiful) and the sincerity in that statement can differ.

Life is precious. When someone is down, we raise each other up not because we can but because it is our duty or service. Our service is to give clients dignity and worth. Which we do by understanding the importance of human relationships. This connects to my value of human connection. We can only achieve these things by having integrity with our clients or as I said, sincerity. All of this can only happen if we have the competence to do all of this. My values do not disagree with those of the social work program but when thinking of what my values were, I did not think of some of the values the social work program holds. Values such as service, I do not hold close because the true definition of service is the action of helping or doing work for someone. I do not hold to any political affiliation but am conservative in the respect that people should help themselves to the best of their ability. That being said, getting help is within the best of their ability, therefore, service is not limited to the social workers as the values are perceived but it is up to the client to provide the opportunity to obtain a service. This is evident in the case of simply finding the nearest “salvation army” or social worker in the yellow pages but allowing workers to provide a service (such as placing an elderly into a home). There are three common sayings that support my ideal, “you can lead a horse to water, but can’t make ‘em drink”, “God helps those that helps themselves” and lastly, “help me help you.” Overall service starts by the initiative which I believe those that need help should take (however we make services known.) Differences in my opinion or value in service can hinder my ability to take initiative or understand that in a case, there may be underlying problems that need to be resolved. If I am under the belief that because they did not ask for help then they will not receive