Values Ch 3 Flashcards
(25 cards)
When clients values conflict with yours?
A. Keep the case (consultation, challenge yourself, personal therapy)
B. Don’t keep the case:
a. You have tried all of the previous suggestions
b. values are centrally involved
c. Your boundaries of competence have been reached.
……Yet still, you
I. have extreme discomfort with a client’s values.
II. are unable to maintain objectivity.
III. fears of imposing your values on the client.
IV. have countertransference which cannot be managed.
= Referral (must provide 3 sources)
* risk of abandonment
What do you need to do before you decide not to keep the case?
Criteria:
a. You have tried all of the previous suggestions
b. Your moral, religious or political values are centrally involved, AND c. Your boundaries of competence have been reached.
d. Yet still, you
I. have extreme discomfort with a client’s values.
II. are unable to maintain objectivity.
III. have grave concerns about imposing your values on the client.
IV. have countertransference which cannot be managed.
What is involved in referring a client?
a. If you do not choose to keep the case, you must provide your client with referrals to at least three other sources.
When you refer a client, you always run the risk of abandonment?
TRUE
What is abandonement?
Not being available for your client at the times and in the ways your client should be able to expect.
What does it mean that therapy s not value-less?
It is impossible to not have your values reflected.
What does it mean to expose values rather than impose?
Expose” vs. “Impose”
1. It may be ethical to occasionally expose your values. 2. It is always unethical to impose your values.
It is always unethical to impose your values.
TRUE
Values can be communicated non-verbally just as efficiently as they can be
verbally.
TRUE
advice is not therapy
true
it is unethical to give advice in therapy
TRUE;
advice = your opinion = values
Do therapist and client need to have similar values?
NO
What is value imposition?
♣ direct attempt to influence a client to adopt values, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors
It is against the ethics code to refuse a client or refer a client based on discrimination
TRUE
spirituality is a diversity issue
TRUE
What is principle E?
respect for people’s rights and dignity
How do you assess a client’s spirituality?
FICA
Faith: do you consider yourself religious or spiritual? If no what gives your life meaning?
Importance: is this belief important to you?
Community : are you a part of a spiritual or religious community?
Address: how would you like to address these issues in your therapy?
Explicit vs Implicit integration of spirituality?
♣ Implicit: unconscious, emotion driven, automatic
♣ Explicit: primary, conscious, verbal, deliberate
It is the therapist role to help clarify the client’s own religious/spiritual pathway?
TRUE
What are the benefits of spirituality/religion?
source of strength
healing
well-being
coping
Clinicians are less religious than the general population?
TRUE
Most clinicians do not assess the spiritual or religious values of clients? Or use the Religious/Spiritual V. Code?
TRUE
The field values importance of religion/spirituality in human diversity, health, coping and the cross-cultural and interfaith issues that will affect their work
TRUE
When your values conflict with the client’s ….you should not keep the case if…..
- tried seeking help (therapy/consultation)
- your values are directly involved
- your boundaries of competence have been reached
AND……
- your uncomfortable with client’s values
- can’t maintain objectivity
- fear of imposing values
- countertransference unmanageable
