Our values, attitudes, and beliefs inform our relationship with clients and tasks in human service work. After reflecting on the inventories from pages 25-26 and 28-36, I identified three essential co ...

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Our values, attitudes, and beliefs inform our relationship with clients and tasks in human service work. After reflecting on the inventories from pages 25-26 and 28-36, I identified three essential core values: empathy, respect for diversity, and integrity as being the most relevant for the subject. These values endeavor to define who we are as professionals and also facilitate the creation of trust and openness in service delivery.
The current value in human services is empathy. It concerns the capacity to empathize and to enter into somebody else's state of mind and see things from that viewpoint. Empathy is about making a listening partner and assuring clients that I care or understand what they have gone through without offering an adverse judgment or opinion. It is essential when the practitioner is dealing with emotionally charged situations, as it helps to affirm a client's feelings. By establishing rapport through empathy, we break barriers of presenting ourselves, and hence, clients become mo