Question

Discuss reasons in order to be an ethical Human Service professional, is it imperative and essential for a counselor to know their values, limitations, biases, to understand reasons? Is it important to appreciate the challenges with objectivity related to their own family of origin issues?

Answer 1

Ethical human service or ethical conducts are important especially when a person interacts with the outer world which is not an immidiate family. Ethical service means a person should follow the ethics when in a workplace . Situations arises that persons stands in between the choices and then its the only ethics which can help the person choose the right path to walk for. For a counsellor it is very important to understand the values, biases , limitations , tastes , choices , preferences etc to understand the client which he deals with. Definitely it will be not the correct way to counsel a client putting one,s own values and to suggest something of own preferences. Its not mandatory for all that everybody should maintain same type of tastes or choices or same type of values to the society. Thats why case history is very important to counsel a patient giving the patients values, beliefs etc into top priority. These things are based on the family values and its a heredity to a some extent so its quite common that a person looks the world into those things and beleive a matter to be right or wrong in that way only. The judgement level of that person develops in the same way as he develops the values and beleifs .