Evaluating Personal Values In The Counseling Relationship

Values are important in the makeup of a person because they are what guides and determines how a person lives. One may not have very many, but if one would try to explore their values, they will most likely find at least one. Whether it’s a big value such as valuing the importance of only having relations when one gets married, or as small as saying thank you. Point being everyone has something they value. As Levitt and Moorhead say, values not only come up in the counseling relationship but also affect many sides of the relationship both negatively and positively. Because of this, evaluating ones’ values to not be biased and be alert when an issue arises that challenges the helpers’ values comes up, is an essential part to becoming a helper. Knowing your values can help keep an objective …show more content…
Not only would I side with him, I might even try to impose my values onto the parents, trying to get them to change their set of mind about their values.
A lot of the values raised in this chapter I know where I stand about them. One of the topics it talks about is religion or a higher power. It says, that when a person seeks therapy because they don’t see much point in living if they are living an empty, meaningless life. In this case I believe it is a situation a helper can explore their values with the client. If the helper values religion or higher power, they may try to guide the individual to see how having these values gives life a meaning and purpose. As Corey and Corey right, religion and spirituality may be part of a client’s problem, but sometimes it’s the solution to client’s problems because it helps them find meaning and purpose in the universe. The counselor should not try to force their values upon the client, instead they should talk with them and let the client form his own values and take away what he finds meaning and