Personal Values and Ethical Standards

Personal Values and Ethical Standards

Jeri Fletcher

BSHS/331

March 14, 2012

John B. Green Jr., M.S., LMFT

Personal Values and Ethical Standards

The Development of Personal Values

The development of my personal values, I believe began of course, in my early childhood with family, those values helped me define who I am today. I learned what values are from my parents, grandparents, older members of my family, work, school, and church. My parents taught me that family was the important part of my early values; no one took the place of family and what it meant to you other than church. We are taught to be loyal, trustworthy, an intelligence of responsibility for family, friends, coworkers, our businesses, the community in which we live. Other values, such as be clean, punctual, neatness, accurate, worth, and striving for perfection in what I set out to do.

Ground Rules and Ethics

The ground rules in my home were, to keep your room clean, homework was complete, whatever chores were given to you must be taken care of before we could watch television, entertain our friends. On Sundays church was first and if we decided we did not what to go, we were not allowed to go out and have fun. There were ground rules that I began to form for myself intertwining those of my parents. I will strive to be a person creditable of trust, keeping promises being loyal, staying focused on my moral responsibilities with dignity. There must be a sense of civility, courtesy, tolerance, and acceptance. Shaping my life with constantly critiquing my moral commitments, always working on establishing when to speak out or not and that I believe there is a duty of responsibility to have moral obligation to pursue quality and self - reliant.

Fairness is another duty that we should continue to develop with a concern for equality, openness, and justice. The most important duty to me is caring, caring is a powerful value, when relating to genuine concern for the wellbeing of others, which is empathy, sharing, and understanding of our duty. Our duties for citizens, also shapes us to share in society, caring for the future of those who have lost his or her way.

Criteria and Decision-Making factors

The decision making-process that I would use to revise my values, would know how to determine what us acceptable or unacceptable, and whether the decision you make is for the right reason or for popularity. When dealing with values every situation is different, values, duties, and ethics is based on what the issue is and if it could be harmful to one's state of mind. My questions to myself do it help me to be better and are my moral values at state. There should be some lesson learn with revising my decisions. In the decision process the revisions are to help me keep control of my life whether it is with my family, friends, the workplace, and at school.

Values as a Human Service Professional

My values as a human services professional is to the best of my ability is to help my client who finds it hard to cope in society. My efforts (I hope) will be to help my client achieve independence, self-worth, and self-sufficient. When weighing our beliefs and values, we must also think about the client and not offend the client because as we know every client is different.

The professional should not judge the client but give him or her the best advice on the dilemmas they are facing. In my role as a life coach, it is to use specific insights and skills to bring out the abilities and the talents that the client has within. I know that my commitment to the client is required.

Concordance of an Ethical Practice

The ethical dilemma where the client has issues where he or she is having difficulties with someone who is married to an African American man and she is Caucasian and she has issues with her husband controlling and is causing her mental abuse and she thinks it is because of his ethnic background. She is finding it difficult to accept some his cultures. I believe I can her insight and guidance on ways to communicate with her husband. And because I am an African American, my counseling would help her understand that yes there are some cultural differences, but that basically no matter what the ethnic background some of the tension probably has nothing to do with him being African American.

Discordance of an Ethical Dilemma

Discordance between the counselor and, a client could entail a personal and moral value regarding family values. The mother is repeatedly abusing his or her children and blaming the children for unhappiness. I would find it difficult to listen to her ranting and raving and not judging him or her. Children are the most innocent human beings and my personal values are very strong concerning my family ties. But because I am a professional and I believe everyone deserves a chance to change his or her life.

Ethical Standards

Ethical standards are self-imposed