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 th...