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2.2. Autonomy: Respecting the Clients Right to be Self-Governing The autonomy principle addresses an individual’s freedom of choice and action and the counsellor’s responsibility to encourage and guide clients in making their own informed decisions consistent with their personal and cultural values and act on them. Primary element of autonomy is voluntary participation which is the purpose of informed consent wherein all important information about the counsellors background and credentials,…

In a world without values, people would be lost in a sense of who they are and what they want to be. Living in this world gives us a multitude of opportunities to craft our beliefs. Once these beliefs are seeded, values begin to grow in your life. Values are the things that are subconsciously back in our heads yelling at us when we are making every single decision throughout our lives. The years that pass allow for you to shape these molds directly and fittingly into your own life. Individualism…

In many cases, people may be forced by external circumstances to make decisions. However, the results of such decisions can either have a positive or negative impact on the lives of an individual. Such a case is well presented in the story A &P by John Updike where the major character, Sammy is portrayed to be rebellious. His rebellion appears to have more disadvantages than advantages as it complicates his life, which leads him into making uninformed decisions. It is, therefore, true to say…

then there's people that puts others first. Individualistic society is comprised of a group of independent people that prioritize furthering one’s own self-interests. On the other hand, collectivist societies put society’s well-being over an individuals’. In the novel “Animal Farm” by George Orwell there is a farm taken control by animals and where animals believe they were equal. The two main character’s of “Animal Farm” are two pigs named Snowball and Napoleon whose interactions reveal the…

and the society in which he or she lives in. There is no man or woman greater or less than another man or woman. Everyone is the same, and everyone is equal. In this world, society is controlled to make sure no one has a chance to stand out as an individual. This is the world that Equality 7-2521 lived in. After a few years of living for his brothers as a street sweeper, Equality 7-2521 found an underground tunnel. Within this underground tunnel, Equality 7-2521 wrote, thought, and performed…

Self-Worth Self-respect, self-confidence, self-regard, and self-love are all synonyms to self-worth. They all have to do with how a person distinguishes himself from others through introspection. How a person imagines their self-worth determines how they interact with others in society, how they hold them self and how they choose to see the world. This idea of self-worth is brought up in both James Baldwin “A Talk to Teachers” and Fredrick Douglas “Learning to Read and Write”. James Baldwin in…

alludes to the fact that Doty sees the fish as a collective group, because he uses the plural word “them” and clearly negates the illusion that these fish have any individuality to them at all. Even while studying the fish carefully, he doesn’t notice individual fish because they look so magnificent as a group. On the next line he proceeds to elaborate on his description by saying that the mackerel are “Instead / ... all exact expressions / of the one soul,”. Doty believes that although one…

amounts of power. People with disabilities in the 1930’s started being sterilized to prevent the rise of people with disabilities by not giving women reproductive rights. (374-375) Taking away reproductive rights from people with disabilities gave individuals to be considered more able superiority, causing privilege. Powerless is the third face of oppression, this is when a group of individual’s are forced to follow in line while…

The process of discovery insurmountably affects perceptions of human nature and the wider world. Discovery, literally and metaphorically, is the foundation of an individual's physical and emotional evolution, influencing all aspects of their life. The concept that a change of location allows personal growth or decay is considerably relevant to the idea of physical discovery leading to emotional revelation. This is a prevalent thematic concern within Michael Gow’s play Away (1986) in which…

as an act of self-preservation it ultimately leads to self-destruction. Cultural normalcy is set on the concepts one grows up with, it’s based on the society one lives in and the conditions surrounding them. Personal values are created when an individual reaches their own conclusions on the society around them. People begin to doubt themselves when the cultural normalcy clashes with personal…