Developing Awareness of Worker Values While Assessing Client Strengths

Developing Awareness of Worker Values
Entering the field of social work you must be prepared to encounter many personalities. Knowing this, you have to become aware of people with different backgrounds and morals. By doing this you will be able to help your clients to the best of your ability, without forcing your personal beliefs or values on to them. A value is a set of rules or or beliefs that affect your every day decisions (Sheafor & Horejsi, 2011). Applying your personal values to every situation is very important, however, you must learn to separate what you know and what is in actuality the best outcome for your client. I will be discussing the ways I feel about the “Vignette’s”, while also incorporating different things I have learned from the readings and class discussions.
The first vignette I want to discuss is vignette number two. I decide to chose this particular scenario because it was something that I did not agree with. It not only brought a lot of conflicting emotions but made me really think about why someone would do something like this. When first reading the scenario I thought that it was not really a big deal, however, I then realized that my morals were conflicting with what a social worker would have to do in this situation. According to the reading, you must not look at someone as the bad person, however, come up with boundaries and solutions which they will intern have to follow. The reason I find this vignette conflicting is because I know that what the person is doing is wrong.
The first feeling I would say I felt reading this vignette is disgrace. I say this because I know that my client is not being honest. I also feel very tense because I don't know how I would react to a situation like thi...

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...ess. she just supported my dad in every way possible. My perusal values lead me to think that if women don't do what they want this can ruin a marriage. If a wife feels inferior to her husband she will no longer be interested in what he has to offer. Marriage is a partnership not a dictatorship, this is according to my own personal values.
I think the article does reinsure that there is ways to help the client based on what I think, however, I must always remember that there is a bigger picture than what I think, this being the client.

Works Cited

Sette, J. (2014). Defining directions [Class handout]. College of Health Professions, The University of Akron, Akron, OH. (Sette & , 2014)

Sheafor, B. W., & Horejsi, C. R. (2012). Techniques and guidelines for social work practice (9th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Allyn & Bacon. (Sheafor & Horejsi, 2011)