This inventory surveys your thoughts on the role of values in the helping professions. This is not a traditional multiple-choice test in which you must select the one right answer. Rather, it is a survey of your basic beliefs, attitudes, and values on specific topics related to the helping professions. For each question, write in the letter of the response that most clearly reflects your viewpoint at this time. In many cases, the answers are not mutually exclusive, and you may choose more than one response if you wish. In addition, a blank line is included for each item. You may want to use this line to provide another response more suited to your thinking or to qualify a chosen response.
- Practitioners who counsel clients whose sex, race, age, social class, or sexual orientation is different from their own
- Will most likely not understand these clients fully.
- Need to understand the differences between their clients and themselves.
- Can practice unethically if they do not consider multicultural factors.
- Are probably not going to be effective with such clients because of these differences.
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- When I consider being involved in the helping professions, I value the most.
- The money I expect to earn.
- The security I imagine I will have in the job.
- The knowledge that I will be intimately involved with people who are searching for a better life.
- The personal growth I expect to experience through my work.
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- Concerning value judgments in counseling, therapists should
- Feel free to make value judgments about their client’s behavior.
- Actively teach their values when they think that clients need a different set of values.
- Remain neutral and keep their values out of the therapeutic process.
- Encourage clients to question their values and decide on the quality of their behavior.
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- Counselors should
- Teach desirable behavior and values by modeling them for clients.
- Encourage clients to look within themselves to discover values that are meaningful to them.
- Reinforce the dominant values of society.
- Very delicately, if at all, challenge clients’ value systems.
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- In terms of appreciating and understanding the value systems of clients who are culturally different from me,
- I see it as my responsibility to learn about their values and not impose mine on them.
- I would encourage them to accept the values of the dominant culture for survival purposes.
- I would attempt to modify my counseling procedures to fit their cultural values.
- I think I must learn about the specific cultural values my clients hold.
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- If a client came to me with a problem and I could see that I would not be objective because of my values, I would
- Accept the client and challenge myself to become more tolerant of diversity.
- Tell the client at the outset about my fears concerning our conflicting values.
- Refer the client to someone else.
- Attempt to influence the client to adopt my way of thinking.
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- Concerning a client’s right to make his or her own end-of-life decisions, I would
- Always use the principle of a client’s self-determination as the key in any dilemma of this sort.
- Tell my client what I thought was the right course to follow.
- Suggest that my client see a clergyperson and/or a physician.
- Encourage my client to find meaning in life, regardless of his or her psychological and physical condition.
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- I would tend to refer a client to another therapist
- If I had a strong dislike for the client.
- If I didn’t have much experience working with the kind of problem the client presented.
- If I saw my own needs and problems getting in the way of helping the client.
- If the client seemed to distrust me.
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- My ethical position regarding the role of values in therapy is that, as a therapist, I should never impose my values on a client.
- Expose my values, without imposing them on the client.
- Teach my clients what I consider to be proper values.
- Keep my values out of the counseling relationship.
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- If I were to counsel LGBT clients, a major concern of mine would be
- maintaining objectivity.
- Not knowing and understanding enough about their sexual orientation.
- Establishing a positive therapeutic relationship.
- Pushing my values.
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- Regarding the role of spiritual and religious values, as a counselor, I would be inclined to
- Ignore such values for fear that I would impose my own beliefs on my client.
- Actively strive to get my clients to think about how spirituality or religion could enhance their lives.
- Avoid bringing up the topic unless my client initiated such a discussion.
- Conduct an assessment of my client’s spiritual and religious beliefs during the intake session.
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- If my philosophy conflicted with that of the institution I worked for, I would
- Seriously consider whether I could ethically remain in that position.
- Attempt to change the policies of the institution.
- Agree to whatever was expected of me in that system.
- Quietly do what I wanted to do, even if I had to be devious about it.
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NB; explain why to every answer
